Just who discovered
America's Mainland?
As Ian Wilson shows
in John Cabot, this
was John Cabot, and
a West Country crew
of just 18, who left
Bristol, England in
May 1497. Sailing for
35 days, they
reached the north
American Mainland in
June. Up to that time, and for more than a year after,
Columbus had only found West Indian islands, and to his
dying day continued to believe that these belonged to
Asia.
John Cabot and the Matthew has been published to
mark the 500th anniversary of Cabot's voyage, and the
building of the replica Matthew. |
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