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Most of us remember from history class that Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, so we think that’s when American was discovered. That’s way wrong. He didn’t get anywhere near what we know as America until 1498, which was his fourth voyage! The 1492 date was only when he got the grant from Queen Isabella to set sail.
So if he had four voyages, so surely some mighty big adventures, though we never hear about those. I guess there’s so much history to cram into the text books since then, they bottom-line everything and skip the good parts.
He was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451 to a poor household. Of his four brothers and one sister, two of his brothers would much later join him in his wanderings. He grew to be strong and well built, with high ruddy cheeks, light-colored yes and reddish-blond hair, though boys over flowers it would turn white at age 30.
He boys over flowers always loved the sea, and as he got older, (but way before his hair turned white) he sailed with a Genoese Italian fleet of five ships. But on their way to Portugal, 13 Franco-Portuguese boys over flowers ships mistook them for enemies and a hot and heavy battled raged that wiped out three of Italian fleet’s ships while nine of the enemy ships remained. Eventually a truce was called, but Columbus boys over flowers had been on one of the Italian ships that went down. He quickly grabbed an oar and with its help, swam six miles to the Portuguese shore.
He was 26 when he met his future wife, Dona Filip Monis at church. Her father had been employed by the Portuguese king to discover new land with two other men. Dona’s father was given the smaller of the two islands discovered named Porto Santo, still so-named today. Columbus lived there with his wife, Dona, and her mother, recently widowed. boys over flowers
Dona’s mother gave Columbus her deceased husband’s sea charts and maps, seeing how excited he got when she repeated her husband’s seafaring tales. Columbus then went to Lisbon to study navigation, which included astronomy, math and ship building, studying hard and learning boys over flowers fast.
Through his studies, he came to believe, as most scholars did, that the earth was round, not flat, and there had to be a water route east to the Indies where merchants went to acquire valuable spices to be resold in Europe. Columbus felt sure that if the world was round, he could reach the east by sailing west, where he was bound to find not only spices, but gold and jewels.
Wanting Portugal to have the honor of the discovery of any lands he might find and claim for Portugal, he approached the Portuguese King Joao, showing him maps and explaining his plans carefully. Columbus asked for three ships with a year’s supply boys over flowers of food and little trinkets to trade with the people they might encounter on such islands.
He also asked to be given the title, ‘Admiral of the Ocean Sea’ and be appointed as the sole governor of any land he discovered. Third, he wanted a tenth of any profit from all materials of these lands, including any crops and metals. King Joao said he would think about it and get back to Columbus. Columbus left and waited several weeks, anxious to hear from the king. The year was 1484.
Meanwhile the king, using Columbus’ charts, sent his own ships on the mission Columbus proposed, but without the knowledge and ability, the group floundered, found nothing and returned to Lisbon after several boys over flowers days, reporting boys over flowers that there was nothing out there to be found.
Columbus was furious hearing this, though he agreed to part as friends with the king, who had explained he had gotten a cheaper offer. Columbus secretly set out for Spain with the intention of asking the Spanish Queen Isabella, known to be more compassionate and easier to talk to than her husband, King Ferdinand.
Luis, a courier of the queen’s, befriended boys over flowers Columbus, and the man took the matter to the queen, who thought it was a good idea, but wasn’t sure she liked Columbus’s demands, especially wanting the title of Admiral boys over flowers of Ocean Sea. However she did like him saying he would claim the lands for Spain, convert any people on them to Catholicism and find gold to bring back to