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  #1 MrGhaz . on 18 Jun 10

   

  Although America is named after the Italian navigator, Amerigo Vespucci, who made several voyages to the New World and drew up many important charts, it was another Italian, Christopher Columbus, born Cristoforo Colombo, who first reached the Americas in October 1492. Columbus had spent eight years to persuade the rulers of Spain, Ferdinand and Isabella, to give him three ships and ninety men for the first voyage. His flagship, Santa Maria, was wrecked in Hispaniola and only two vessels returned to Spain. Later Columbus made three further voyages, probably touching the mainlands of both North and South America.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Although America is named after the Italian navigator, Amerigo Vespucci, who made several voyages to the New World and drew up many important charts, it was another Italian, Christopher Columbus, born Cristoforo Colombo, who first reached the Americas in October 1492. Columbus had spent eight years to persuade the rulers of Spain, Ferdinand and Isabella, to give him three ships and ninety men for the first voyage. His flagship, Santa Maria, was wrecked in Hispaniola and only two vessels returned to Spain. Later Columbus made three further voyages, probably touching the mainlands of both North and South America.</div>

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