1ST VOYAGE (1492-1493) was truly historic. Columbus used his knowledge of the "trade winds" to make the longest voyage ever out of the sight of land. Thinking he had made it to India, he referred to the inhabitants as "Indians," and the n...
His statue stood atop the central portion of the Peristyle, which, since it was shaped as a triumphal arch, elevated both the act of entering the fair and the voyage of Columbus to the status of triumphal processions. Accordingly, the sculpture of Columbus showed the navigator standing ...
He was no longer an adventurous sailor-boy, glad of any voyage which offered; he was a man thirty years of age or more. He married in the city of Lisbon and settled himself there. His wife was named Philippa. She was the daughter of an Italian gentleman named Bartolomeo Muniz de ...
Columbus was not the first European to reach the Americas. The archaeological record now shows that Vikings had already made the voyage before Columbus, thinking he was in Asia, reached the Caribbean. What’s more, it is uncertain that Columbus actually came ashore on any part of the United ...