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Columbus was NOT Italian, but Spanish and he sailed for Spain. He was from a Spanish noble family who were rivals of the crown so he took on a persona to get funding. His log and journals were all in Spanish, his wife was from a Spanish noble family, and he spoke Spanish. Nothing points him out as Italian.
Christopher Columbus!
Vespucci
Columbus, and Italian sailor, was funded by Spain. Another Italian, John Cabot, sailed under the English flag. Vespucci, and Italian explorer, sailed with a Spanish expecition. Magellon, a Portuguese sea captain, was funded by Spain. Hudson, and English captain, sailed on different expeditions under the Dutch and the English flags.
Herman Cortes was a Spanish explorer.
Ponce de Leon is the explorer who sailed from Puerto Rico around the coast of Florida in the 1500s.
Giovanni Caboto.
Christopher Colombus Columbus was Italian using finances from Spain.
Giovanni Caboto was an Italian explorer commissioned by Henry VII of England in 1497. He sailed under the name John Cabot.
christopher columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492
not hardly- Columbus lived long before anybody even dreamed of a US president. (Columbus was an Italian explorer who sailed under the Spanish flag and reached North America in 1492.)
Christopher Columbus, unknowingly discovering the Americas on October 12, 1492.