Little known fact: Columbus never set foot in America. He made it to Haiti and the Bahamas and that’s it. John Cabot was an Italian explorer who landed in what is now known as North America with a commission on behalf of England. We, at the time not wanting to give Britain credit for anything, decided to rally around the Spaniard, Columbus. The only reason it’s not Washington DC (District of Caboto, rather than Columbia) is simply, petty spite. Columbus went on to commit a genocide on the Native Americans that would’ve made Hitler blush.
/flamewar suit on
The coutries colonized by Great Britain should thank God
it was that country and not Spain or France or Portugal.