La Navidad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views
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Columbus called the colony La Navidad, Christmas, because it was founded on Christmas day.
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anthony anthony on 05 Jun 09how 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
