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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Columbus, Christopher 1435-1536 (search)
sent a caravel ostensibly with provisions for the Cape Verde Islands, but with secret instructions to the commander to pursue a course westward indicated by Columbus. The fears of the mariners caused them to Christopher Columbus. turn back from the threatenings of the turbulent Atlantic. Disgusted with this pitiful trick, reduced to poverty, and having lost his wife, he determined to leave Portugal and ask aid from elsewhere. With his son Diego, he left Lisbon for Spain secretly in 1484, while his brother Bartholomew prepared to go to England to ask aid for the projected enterprise from Henry VII. Genoa again declined to help him; so also did Venice; and he applied to the powerful and wealthy Spanish dukes of Medina-Sidonia and Medina-Celi. They declined, but the latter recommended the project to Queen Isabella, then with her Court at Cordova, who requested the navigator to be sent to her. In that city he became attached to Donna Beatrice Enriques, by whom he had a son,
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
mmunication with Greenland ceases about......1400 Berthancourt settles the Canary islands......1402 Madeira Islands rediscovered by the Portuguese......1418-20 These islands previously discovered by Machan, an Englishman......1327-78 The Claudius Clavus map, giving the earliest delineation of any part of America (Greenland)......1427 era of permanent discovery Columbus born......1435-36 (?) 1445 Visits England and Iceland prior to......1470 Columbus in Portugal......1470-84 Marco Polo's travels first printed......1477 Columbus in Spain. Announces his views to Ferdinand and Isabella......1485-86 The views of Columbus referred to a junto of ecclesiastics, which declares them vain and impracticable......1487-90 Columbus leaves Spain for France......January, 1492 [But is recalled while on his journey.] Ferdinand and Isabella arrange with Columbus......April 17, 1492 Columbus sailed on his first expedition from Palos in Andalusia on Friday, wi