:^) Magellan died during the voyage. The first expedition head to lead his expedition all the way around the globe was Sir Francis Drake.
Posted on 08/23/2024 7:15:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Five hundred years ago, no one suspected the 16th-century vessel the Nao Victoria would become the stuff of legend. In 1519, a Portuguese consul called the Spanish carrack “very old and patched up” and unfit to even “sail … to the Canaries.” Nevertheless, the Nao Victoria was chosen for a five-ship expedition, crewed by 270 men, that would come to be known as one of the most significant journeys in the history of human exploration.
The captain of this unprecedented adventure was Portuguese explorer Fernão de Magalhães, anglicized Ferdinand Magellan. On September 20, 1519, he set sail aboard the flagship Trinidad from Sanlúcar de Barrameda in southern Spain, with an intended destination of the present-day Maluku Islands. Three years and tens of thousands of miles later, the “very old and patched up” Nao Victoria was the journey’s sole surviving ship — and Magellan wasn’t on board.
Magellan had died in a skirmish in the Philippines in 1521. It was Juan Sebastián Elcano, another mariner on the expedition, who brought the Nao Victoria back to its home port, but Elcano wasn’t the first person to circumnavigate the globe either. Historians believe that honor belongs to an enslaved person named Enrique, whom Magellan seized during the Portuguese conquest of Malacca (in present-day Malaysia) in 1511.
Enrique served as an interpreter during the historic journey for eight years after his capture, but he abandoned the mission after Magellan’s death.
As luck would have it, Enrique was only a little over 1,500 miles from his native land of Malacca. If Enrique found his way home before September 6, 1522 (when the 18 men aboard the Nao Victoria made it home to Spain), he’d officially be the first person to ever circumnavigate the globe — but we’ll likely never know for sure.
Of course, it was an enslaved man.
If thats true, wouldn’t it be the person who commanded him? /sarcasm
I wonder how much energy was spent on this garbage?
On March 16, 1521
When Philippines was discovered by Magellan
They were sailing day and night, across the big ocean
Until they saw a small Limasawa island
Magellan landed in Limasawa at noon
The people met him very welcome on the shore
They did not understand the speaking they have done
Because Kastila gid at Waray-Waray man
When Magellan landed in Cebu City
Rajah Humabon met him, they were very happy
All people were baptized and built the church of Christ
And that’s the beginning of our Catholic life
When Magellan visited in Mactan
To Christianize them everyone
But Lapulapu met him on the shore
And drive Magellan to go back home
Then Magellan got so mad
Ordered his men to camouflage
“Mactan island, we could not grab
‘Cause Lapulapu is very hard”
Then the battle began at dawn
Bolos and spears versus guns and cannons
When Magellan was hit on his neck
He stumbled down and cried and cried
Oh, mother, mother, I am sick
Call the doctor very quick
Doctor, doctor, shall I die?
Tell my mama, “Do not cry”
Tell my mama, “Do not cry”
Tell my mama, “Do not cry”
That’s the end of Magellan in the island of Mactan
Long time ago, ladies and gentlemen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oWV5_SYkys
:^) Magellan died during the voyage. The first expedition head to lead his expedition all the way around the globe was Sir Francis Drake.
Interesting homecoming story. A man is captured and enslaved when the Portugese conquored the Malaccas in 1511. At some point he is taken to Europe and ends up as an interpreter on Magellan’s voyage. He disappears after Magellan’s death in the Phillipines.
The story says he “abandoned the voyage,” which is an odd phrasing. Sailors in that era jumped ship. A lot. Captains picked up able bodied seamen where they could and often returned from long voyages with quite exotic crews. The Phillipines in 1521 would not seem to be a promising place for a European seaman to jump ship, but it would not be hospitable for a man from the Malaccas either.
It would be interesting to know the rest of this man’s story. In principle, I would applaud a slave who seized a chance to make a break for freedom. But for the theme of this story, the obvious question is whether there were any other crewmen or perhaps one of the officers in Magellan’s expedition who would have the same standing.
Such a man would have made the voyage from Spain to the East Indies in an earlier voyage. If he again reached the East Indies from the opposite direction on Magellan’s voyage, he would have “circumnavigated” the globe in the same sense as the man in this story. He just wouldn’t have done it in one continuous voyage.
I’ve crossed every section of the U.S. by car, just not all at once. It was multiple road trips scattered over many years. Have I “driven across the U.S.?”
When Magellan sailed, the Americas were known, though the mapping was crude and often wrong. The East Indies were known, though the mapping was very bad there as well. The blank spot on the map was the Pacific Ocean. Was there an unknown landmass blocking the way, just as the Americas were a surprise to Columbus, who was trying to reach the Far East? And if it was open ocean, where might fresh water and food be found? Magellan’s contribution was beginning to fill in the blanks on the map of the Pacific. Once the survivors reached the Far East, they were back in known territory.
I thought this article was going to be about the Muslims’ contention that Mohammed (piss upon his head) flew around the world on his magical horse.
That was from the late, great Filipino comedy novelty singer, Yoyoy Villame.
His songs never cease to make me laugh or bring a smile to my face. 😂 😆 😝
So basically the 18 survivors of the Magellen group led by Elcano. Maybe Enrique but we’ll never know just like someone could have much earlier but there is no documentation. This is similar to the Vikings finding North America long before Columbus. What counts in historical reality is that you announce your discovery and the news spreads and something is made of it beyond your first time feat.
Another example is the beginning of aviation by the Wright brothers. There are claims others flew earlier than they did. Big whoop because nothing ever came of them. What is crucial is that the Wright brothers then built more planes and demonstrated it to the US military and then went to Europe and showed what they could do. That part of making jaws drop is one of the most exciting stories in human history.
I could invent or do something revolutionary and if I didn’t tell anyone its effect would be the same as if I never did.
Ty rowin' did most of the work...
Actually he found / pioneered the... Straits of Magellan.
Who cares? People circumnavigate the globe all the time.
People are like, “Hey, Columbus discovered America, you know...”
And I’m like, “So what? I was born here!”
Going East to West around Cape Horn is also against the wind, into some of the roughest seas on Earth.
Enrique would have been a native of the Moluccas. That is, in the modern world he would be an Indonesian, not black.
But it is, as noted, speculative whether Enrique got back to his home. His last known location was hundreds of miles away from a round trip.
Magellan also missed the mark by a few hundred miles. One could call that a quibble, and I’m willing to call it close enough. And the trip was his idea, and he led the expedition nearly all the way to a circumnavigation.
Sebastian Elcano and his crew of survivors indubitably completed their trip. And since he was a Basque and a Spanish subject, this pleases me, being as I am also a Basque and a Spanish subject. Elcano was from Getaria on the Guipuzkoan coast, and my grandmother was from a caserio (farmhouse or hamlet) just up the hills from there.
Biden said it was his son who did.
Woulda, coulda, might have B S.
Don’t tell me. It was a long-forgotten black guy. Right?
The article states that the one who successfully circumnavigated the world and LIVED to tell it was Juan Sebastian Elcano, who took over when Magellan died in the Philippines.
The slave who participated in the circumnavigation was Enrique from Malacca.
It’s hard to tell his race. Malacca na are a mix of Malays, Chinese, Indians, Baba Nyonya, Kristang, Chitty, Temuan and Eurasians.
Willie Makeit was the map reader.
Betty Woent was the cartographer..
Apparently no one here has heard about this book.
1421 The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies (I would have copied the cover, but Control C/V did not work to do this.)
The author, a captain of submarines, moved from his interest in old maps to discover these apparently amazing voyages being the source for European ideas of certain long ocean voyages, probably both the Portuguese and Columbus.
in 1421 an extremely ambitious and far thinking Chinese ruler, decided to send his imposing and capable Muslim eunuch to sea in charge of many 500 foot junks. He was to search for all the lands of the world to achieve trade and tribute for China, and unite the world in Confucian harmony. Having not completed my reading I am not clear if any one man went completely around the world. The armada was divided into 5 fleets with different directions and various goals. Some went south to discover Antarctica and make new scientific astronomical measurements. Others went up or down the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the Americas. Australia was identified, the Straits of Magellan were discovered and used. Basically, all the sea coasts of the world including Africa were visited, but avoiding Europe on purpose. Since many of these ships had been used to convey important visitors to China back to their homes, beautiful and talented women were included on board. When as inevitably happened, some ships were damaged or sunk, sailors and women were deposited on land and in cases established communities. They would have waited for their rescue once the fleets returned home.
By 1423 the various fleets had returned to China, but disaster befell these amazing voyages, probably to our own benefit. The new ruler in the midst of political and economic chaos decided to destroy all evidence of these explorations, destroy all records, and the many items that had been collected for study and display. It was like Darwin had never existed by way of analogy, and the abandoned communities were never rescued. China retreated into centuries of self-imposed isolation, but new knowledge is hard to completely destroy. Apparently some of this new information made it onto maps ultimately used by the European explorers of the later 1400s and 1500s.
The author describes in detail how he found his information, including comparisons of plants and animals traded among the various places visited, DNA research, and other human traces. Once he was able to speak in an appropriate forum much more information flowed in for further research. This information changes much of our understanding of the history of European exploration and findings. As a person interested in these topics, I am amazed I had not discovered this book that was written more than a decade ago. Are we worried how the Chinese might use this information?
Apparently, although deeply disappointed the courageous and capable slave eunuch was able to have a comfortable retirement, leaving enough information for the author to admire his achievements and continue his research with new information.
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