Monday, September 25, 2017
'Magellan\'s Great Expedition'
'On marvelous 10, 1519, quint institutionalizes (Trinidad, San Antonio, Concepción, Victoria, and Santiago) chthonian Magellans command leave Seville and travelled from the Guadalquivir River to Sanlú gondola car de Barrameda at the lip of the river, where they remained more than five weeks. Spanish political science were wary of the Portuguese admiral and almost prevented Magellan from bed sheeting, and switched his junto of broadly speaking Portuguese work force with men of Spain, barely on kinsfolk 20, Magellan enclothe tabloid from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with well-nigh 270 men. King Manuel say a oceanic detachment to survey Ferdinand Magellan, but Magellan avoided the Portuguese. subsequently stopping at the Canary Islands, Ferdinand Magellan arrived at the chimneypiece Verde Islands, where they set course for Cape St. Augustine in brazil-nut tree. On November 27, they crossed the equator; on December 6, the junto sighted Brazil. \nSince Brazil was Portugue se territory, Magellan avoided it, and on December 13 anchored near contemporary Rio de Janeiro. There the mob was resupplied, but deleterious conditions caused them to delay. Afterwards, they continued to sail south along sulphur Americas due east coast, looking for the laissez passer that Magellan believed would lead to the change Islands. The fleet reached RÃo de la Plata on January 10, 1520. On March 30, the crew established a settlement that they called Puerto San Julian. A mutiny involving ii of the five ship schoolmasters broke out. It was discomfited because the crew remained loyal. Sebastian del Cano was star of those who were forgiven. Antonio Pigafetta relates that Gaspar Quesada, the captain of Concepcion, was put to death; Juan de Cartagena, the captain of the San Antonio, and a priest named begetter Sanchez dela Reina were instead desert on the coast. other account states that Luis de Mendoza, the captain of Victoria, was exe repressed along with Quesada .[4] \nThe Strait of Magellan cut through the gray tip of South America connecting the Atlantic and Pacific.The journey resumed. ... '
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