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Biography Of Christopher Columbus
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Columbus, Christopher (Italian Cristoforo Colombo, Spanish Cristóbal Coló
n) (1451-1506), Italian-Spanish navigator who sailed west across the
Atlantic Ocean in search of a route to Asia but achieved fame by making
landfall, instead, in the Caribbean Sea. Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy.
His fa ....
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....already rounding
Africa.
Soon after, Columbus moved to Spain, where his plans won the support of
several influential persons, and he secured an introduction, in 1486, to
Isabella I, queen of Castile. About this time, Columbus, then a widower,
met Beatriz Enriquez, who became his mistress and the mother of his second
son, Ferdinand Columbus. In Spain, as in Portugal, a royal commission
rejected his plan. Columbus continued to seek support, however, and in
April 1492 his persistence was rewarded:.... |
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