Columbus called the colony La Navidad, Christmas, because it was founded
on Christmas day.
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how did they know it was christmas.
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When he landed, however, he saw eleven corpses of his men on the beach and discovered that La Navidad had been destroyed. He was told by nearby Tainos that the settlers had mistreated the natives, who retaliated by killing all of them.
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the tainos destroyed it. what happened to the rest of the other 28 ppl.
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After Columbus sailed away a second time, the site apparently was forgotten until a Haitian farmer led Dr. William Hodges to it in 1977. Hodges, an amateur archaeologist and American medical missionary, received permission from the Haitian government to excavate a tennis-court-size section of the marshland, and he and his helpers found some artifacts of La Navidad
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On Christmas night, his biggest ship, the Santa Maria sank on a harbor of the island.
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that was a great chrismas present. now his biggest ship sank
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His goal was to bring to the Spaniards "as much gold as they need...and as many slaves as they ask."
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that was fd up in the movie he semes all nice but he was a real prick
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Columbus had hoped to put down the resistance by kidnapping Caonabo the chief of the Cibao region and making an exemplary spectacle of him.
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he just took the cheif of the cibao region thats kinda siko. thats just like kidnapping the president to stop a war
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