Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbuswas an Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer, and citizen of the Republic of Genoa. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. Those voyages, and his efforts to establish permanent settlements on the island of Hispaniola, initiated the European colonization of the New World...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth31 October 1451
CityGenoa, Italy
CountryItaly
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
These people are very unskilled in arms ... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
Continued their course west till the afternoon, then southwest and discovered that what they had taken for land was nothing but clouds.
And the sea will grant each man new hope . . . his sleep brings dreams of home.