"In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue ..."
I remember this little saying from my elementary days. It was a simple rhyme to help students remember this date. Many years later, I learned that historians believe that Lief Ericksson actually reached North America nearly 500 years earlier. So when Columbus reached the Bahamas on October 12, 1492, he was not the first European to arrive in North America.
"While Columbus never discovered America but his voyage was no less courageous." He did reach the coasts of Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. Today, there is a plethora of information regarding Columbus .
The Biography Online Newsletter sums up their online article "Good or bad, Columbus created a bridge between the old and new world. "
This tiny sailing vessel has little in common with the vessel that Columbus navigated.
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