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John Cabot
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In 1497, an Italian sea captain, sailing under the English flag,
reached the coast of North America. may have been the first
European to set foot on this conttnent after the viking explorer, Leif
Erickson, who had landed there 5 centuries before. Joh Cabot's became the
basis for the English clai ....
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....age in 1498. This voyage is surrouned by mystery.
It is believed that Cabot first sailed back to New Foundland and then went
south as far as Chesapeake Bay before storms wrecked most of his ships.
One ship may have reached the Caribbean Sea. For many years it was
believed that John Cabot survived this voyage and died later in England the
folowing year, but because of more recent evidence, historians now believe
that John Cabot perished when his ship went down in a storm in 1498.
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