I wished to give a complete relation to your Highnesses, an… - Christopher Columbus

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I wished to give a complete relation to your Highnesses, and also where a fort might be built…. However, I do not see it to be necessary, because these people are simple in weapons…. With fifty men I could subjugate them all and make them do everything that is required of them.

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Christopher Columbus (1451 – 20 May 1506) (Cristoforo Colombo in Italian, Cristóbal Colón in Spanish, Cristóvão Colombo in Portuguese) was an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions, sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, were the first European contact with the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.

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Native Name: Christoffa Corombo

Alternative Names: Cristoforo Colombo • Columbus • Cristóbal Colón • Cristobal Colon • Christofer Columbus • Don Cristobál Colón, 'Christopher Columbus'

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