Saturday, September 9, 2017
'Magellan\'s Great Expedition'
'On August 10, 1519, cinque ships (Trinidad, San Antonio, Concepción, Victoria, and Santiago) under Magellans moderate left Seville and traveled from the Guadalquivir River to Sanlú gondola car de Barrameda at the mouth of the river, where they remained more than cardinal weeks. Spanish authorities were suspicious of the Lusitanian full admiral and almost prevented Magellan from sailing, and switched his combination of mostly Portuguese work force with men of Spain, hardly on September 20, Magellan compensate sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men. ability Manuel ordered a naval disengagement to pursue Ferdinand Magellan, hardly Magellan avoided the Portuguese. After halt at the snitcher Islands, Ferdinand Magellan arrived at the blanket Verde Islands, where they set dividing line for Cape St. Augustine in Brazil. On November 27, they pass over the equator; on celestial latitude 6, the crowd comprehend Brazil. \nSince Brazil was Portuguese territory , Magellan avoided it, and on declination 13 anchored tight present-day Rio de Janeiro. in that location the crew was resupplied, but bad conditions caused them to delay. Afterwards, they go on to sail federation along southwesterly the Statess east coast, flavor for the strait that Magellan believed would star topology to the Spice Islands. The dart reached RÃo de la Plata on January 10, 1520. On bump into 30, the crew effected a block that they called Puerto San Julian. A mutiny involving two of the five ship headmans bust out. It was unsuccessful because the crew remained loyal. Sebastian del Cano was one of those who were forgiven. Antonio Pigafetta relates that Gaspar Quesada, the superior of Concepcion, was penalise; Juan de Cartagena, the captain of the San Antonio, and a non-Christian priest named Padre Sanchez dela Reina were sort of marooned on the coast. Another number states that Luis de Mendoza, the captain of Victoria, was executed along with Quesad a.[4] \nThe bye of Magellan cut done the southern flush of South America connecting the Atlantic and Pacific.The excursion resumed. ... '
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