He died May 20, 1506, Valladolid, Spain, less than 14 full years after setting sail on his first of four voyages of discovery. BTW, I set the time index to skip the "please subscribe to 'my' channel" screed.
Will we ever settle the question of which island he reached first? What was the source of light he saw that night?
A descendant by marriage of my ancestor Henry Sinclair who discovered America before him. Columbus possibly had Sinclair’s maps. Yes, I descend from an Illuminati family but apparently from the poor side...and I’m a Q follower since the 2nd weeks of Q posts. My family that descended from this line were not nice people...sigh
Is this TO TELL THE TRUTH?
He was probably Spanish, of Jewish descent (not popular right then in Spain) possibly a marrano.
In any event the Portuguese probably got to the Caribbean islands before he did, but had found nothing of interest there.
Columbus was the first Democrat. He didn’t know where he was going when he left. He didn’t know where he was when he got there. He didn’t know where he had been when he got home.
And he did it all with other people’s money.
Whoever believes in "royalty" simply by accident of birth is completely delusional.
He was obviously an alien, born on the planet Zardoz, who had first-hand knowledge of the stars in the sky.
Ping, amigo.
I always love the breathless claims on “who discovered America before Columbus” and now someone is claiming a need to discover Columbus (the man?) Yet here on FR we are learning that next Monday is rapidly becoming the Federal Holiday once known as Columbus Day. Many of the Woke are getting localities to call it something like ‘Indigenous Day’.
Señor Columbus is but a shade of his former self and likely to be made an unperson in the near future. I’m awaiting the orgy of renaming that this will logically lead to, the nation formerly known as Columbia, The Federal District, The South Carolina Capital, the Ohio city, the River between WA & OR? Will everyone who ever sang “Columbia, Gem of the Ocean” be forced into reeducation camps? The list goes on and on.
An Excellent book, ‘Admiral of the Ocean Sea’, by Samuel Eliot Morison.
He Researches in Spain, Italy, then sails Columbus’ route. He uses the descriptions of headland sightings to establish his locations.
Fascinating book.
Columbus’s first landfall, San Salvador Island in the E Bahamas.
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