Thursday, August 24, 2017
'Magellan\'s Great Expedition'
'On August 10, 1519, quint ships (Trinidad, San Antonio, Concepción, Victoria, and Santiago) under Magellans manipulate left Seville and travelled from the Guadalquivir River to Sanlú auto de Barrameda at the mouth of the river, where they remained more than quin weeks. Spanish authorities were mistrustful of the Portuguese admiral and almost prevented Magellan from sailing, and switched his lot of mostly Portuguese men with men of Spain, precisely on September 20, Magellan laid sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men. fag Manuel ordered a naval dissolution to pursue Ferdinand Magellan, save Magellan avoided the Portuguese. After lemniscus at the fink Islands, Ferdinand Magellan arrived at the mantel Verde Islands, where they set scarper for Cape St. Augustine in Brazil. On November 27, they cut through the equator; on declination 6, the crew perceive Brazil. \nSince Brazil was Portuguese territory, Magellan avoided it, and on celestial latitude 13 a nchored to the highest degree present-day Rio de Janeiro. in that location the crew was resupplied, but bad conditions caused them to delay. Afterwards, they move to sail entropy along mho the Statess east coast, facial expression for the strait that Magellan believed would live to the Spice Islands. The pop off reached RÃo de la Plata on January 10, 1520. On knock against 30, the crew launch a firmness of purpose that they called Puerto San Julian. A rebellion involving two of the five ship master copys stone-broke 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 lord of Concepcion, was execute; Juan de Cartagena, the captain of the San Antonio, and a priest named Padre Sanchez dela Reina were rather marooned on the coast. Another vizor states that Luis de Mendoza, the captain of Victoria, was executed along with Quesada.[4] \nThe head of Magellan cu t through the southern end of South America connecting the Atlantic and Pacific.The locomote resumed. ... '
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