Christopher Columbus

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Biographies

 

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Brandy N

 

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October 31, 2012

 

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His ambition was much aided by the wife he took in 1478. She was Felipa Perestrello e Moniz, and her father was a sea captain from one of Portugal's most influential families. Columbus settled for a while on Porto Santo in the Madeira Is with his new family, and gained considerable sailing experience in the South Atlantic, where his imagination was further roused by sightings of flotsam from other lands...
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His plans were vague, and his proposal to John II of Portugal in 1484 was rejected, so he turned to Spain. After years of alternately being encouraged and repulsed, his voyage was patronized by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Castile in April 1492. On Friday 3 August, he set sail from the Spanish port of Palos in command of the Santa Maria - a decked ship 36`m long, with 50 men, and attended by two little caravels, the Pinta and the Nina , captained by Martin Alonso Pinzon and his brothers...
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