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"A Letter addressed to the noble Lord Raphael Sanchez, &tc.", in R.H. Major, editor, 1848, Select Letters of Christopher Columbus, with other original documents relating to his four voyages to the New World. London: Hakluyt, contains bilingually a Latin transcription and English translation of the third Roman (Silber) edition.
The return of Christopher Columbus; his audience before King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Just three months after entering Granada, Queen Isabella agreed to sponsor Christopher Columbus on an expedition to reach the East Indies by sailing west (for a distance of 2,000 miles, according to Columbus). [90]
As Queen Isabella's forces neared victory over the Moorish Emirate of Granada for Castile, Columbus was summoned to the Spanish court for renewed discussions. [28] He waited at King Ferdinand's camp until January 1492, when the monarchs conquered Granada.
The letter, in which Columbus announced his discoveries on the American continent to Spain’s King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, has been repatriated after being stolen in the 1980s.
[3] [7] Afterwards, Columbus experienced a number of dismissals from presenting his proposal to Venice, Genoa, France, and King Henry VII of England, before reaching Queen Isabella I and King Ferdinand II of Spain in January 1492. [6] [7] Columbus's first presentation of his expedition to the Spanish royalty resulted in denial. [6]
When Columbus's proposal was initially rejected, Queen Isabella convoked another assembly, made up from sailors, philosophers, astrologers and others to reexamine the project. The experts considered absurd the distances between Spain and the Indies that Columbus calculated. The monarchs also became doubting, but a group of influential courtiers ...
Columbus' first expedition to the supposed Indies actually landed in the Bahamas on October 12, 1492. Since Queen Isabella had provided the funding and authorization for the voyage, the benefits accrued to the Kingdom of Castile.
On this day in 1492, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus discovered the New World. ... That same day, his expedition went ashore and he claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain.