But it wasn’t until six years later that he was finally granted the means to make his voyage. Isabella and Ferdinand’s change of tune followed a major wartime victory. In January 1492 ...

and Jacques Cartier's voyage to the St. Lawrence. There are a number of illustrations reproduced from old prints and woodcuts, and a few useful sketch maps. So far as the plan of the series goes ...

It’s hard to know whether Columbus believed these tales, but he certainly seems to have used the map while planning his infamous 1492 voyage, as Chet Van Duzer, the map historian leading the ...

For many of us, the legend of Christopher Columbus’ voyage across the Atlantic goes ... was invented more than 2000 years ago, long before 1492 when Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

A SECRET map drawn from space by a NASA Astronaut ... of the Pinta and Nina on Columbus’s first voyage in 1492. Six years later, around the time of Columbus’s third voyage, Vicente Pinzon ...

Alexander VI, who became pope in 1492, the year Christopher Columbus ... At the time of Columbus’ first voyage, the Catholic Church – and, by extension, the pope’s power – was declining.

The arrival of Christopher Columbus in the new world will be commemorated in a floating memorial of the historic 1492 voyage when a 95-year-old Italian vessel is docked off Wolf Point on the ...