[greatvikingone]

How many people know John Cabot was Columbus' counterpart, but Cabot actually set foot in what is today the USA! Shall we have Cabot's name removed from all towns and streets. IMO, Cabot was a much greater influence in the establishment of Europeans in the West.

[Monterrosa-24]

Yes but the English colonies here started over 100 years after the Spanish colonies so we were Johnny-Come-Lately types.

The 1588 battle defeating the Spanish Armada had a lot to do with English confidence in establishing colonies during the following generation just as the fall of Moslem Grenada in 1492 had giiven the Spanish confidence.

Yankess always have to be reminded that Jamestown, Virginia predates the colony at Plymouth,

[Verginius Rufus]

Cabot, of course, was also Italian. I was under the impression that it is uncertain how far south Cabot got, so he may not have actually reached the present-day US. St. John's, Newfoundland, is so named because he reached there on the feast of the nativity of John the Baptist.

On Cape Breton Island (province of Nova Scotia) they have a "Cabot trail" and they claim he reached their island.

Whether he actually made it to New England (named by Capt. John Smith of Jamestown fame) is uncertain.