Christopher+Columbus'+third+voyage

toc = = =__Introduction__=

The goal behind the 3rd journey was bring supplies for the settlement and explore further south. It was the 30 of May of 1498 when Christopher Columbus went from Spain, this time from the port of Sanlucar, with 6 vessels. The group of ships landed on 19 of June at the Canary Islands, this was after a brief stop at Madeira and Porto Santo. From the Canary Islands they separated into two teams.The Queen of Castile forgive some murderes and thiefs to go with colombus and his crew.



Logically 3 ships headed for La Isabela and the remaining ships followed Christopher Columbus on the charge to uncover more territory south of the Indies. Christopher Columbus aimed initially at the Cape Verde Islands in an attempt to get cattle, unfortunately these efforts were futile. The group of ships, after sailing onward July 4, found themselves in an area with little wind. The "Doldrums" as it is called is known for such pathetic gusts. Nine days later Columbus and his 3 ships had only managed to travel one hundred and twenty leagues! Then, the winds miraculously came back on 22 of July and they aimed their ships west.Columbus landed on the south coast of the island of Trinidad on 31 of July of 1498. Columbus returned from South America to Hispaniola on 19 of August of 1498 to find that many of the Spanish settlers of the new colony were discontent, having been misled by Columbus about the supposedly bountiful riches of the new world. Columbus repeatedly had to deal with understandably rebellious settlers and natives. He had some of his crew lynched for disobeying him.

**__Cape Verde Islands__**


There were small quantities of water and other supplies were by the 31st of July. Christopher Columbus made plans to return to the previously discovered Dominica (found on the second voyage). Christopher Columbus was a very religious man, and he called an island Trinidad, because of the Holy Trinity.

Trinidad served not just as a means for water but an entrance to America. It was during the collection of water for their continued voyage that they saw the coastline of South America. At this moment, the were the first Europeans to came across America.

It was for a period of 8 days in August that Christopher Columbus explored the Gulf of Paria which lies between Trinidad and South America. From the 4th of August through the 12th of August of 1498, he explored the Gulf of Paria which separates Trinidad from Venezuela. He then explored South America, including the Orinoco River. He also sailed to the islands of Chacachacare and Margarita Island and sighted the islands Bella Forma (Tobago) and Concepcion (Grenada). He described the new lands as belonging to a previously unknown new continent, but he pictured it hanging from China. It was early on the 13th of Augoust that they finished this area of discovery and headed west from the gulf and went along till the 16th where they landed at Margarita. As with his previous trip Christopher Columbus became older, he made plans to sail back to Hispaniola, landing there on thew 19th of Augoust. Settlers rebelled against his leadership and he could not make them back down without agreeing to certain terms.



=**__Problems in America__**=

Arriving at the new city of Santo Domingo, Columbus discovered that some colonists had revolt against his rule. Columbus was unable to put down the revolt. But the malcontents continued, and the amount of gold received from the New World continued to be a very little amount, both for the colonists and the Sovereigns. Accordingly, Ferdinand and Isabela appointed Francisco de Bobadilla as royal commissioner, with powers above those of Columbus. When Bobadilla arrived in Santo Domingo, he immediately had Columbus arrested, Columbus was arrested in 1500 and supplanted from his chargues. A number of returned settlers and friars were against Columbus at the Spanish court.Francisco de Bobadilla arrived on the 23rd of Augoust of 1500 and detained Columbus and his brothers. On the 1st of October of 1500, Columbus and his two brothers, were sent back to Spanish Aragon. Once in Cadiz, Columbus wrote to a friend at court:

It is now seventeen years since I came to serve these princes with the Enterprise of the Indies. They made me pass eight of them in discussion, and at the end rejected it as a thing of jest. Nevertheless I persisted therein... Over there I have placed under their sovereignty more land than there is in Africa and Europe, and more than 1,700 islands... In seven years I, by the divine will, made that conquest. At a time when I was entitled to expect rewards and retirement, I was incontinently arrested and sent home loaded with chains... The accusation was brought out of malice on the basis of charges made by civilians who had revolted and wished to take possession on the land.... I beg your graces, with the zeal of faithful Christians in whom their Highnesses have confidence, to read all my papers, and to consider how I, who came from so far to serve these princes... now at the end of my days have been despoiled of my honor and my property without cause, wherein is neither justice nor mercy.



=__**Columbus and the Queen**__=

Columbus regularly used acts of violence to govern Hispaniola. Columbus and his brothers were in jail for six weeks before the busy King Ferdinand ordered their release. Not long after, the king and queen called Columbus' brothers to their presence at the Alhambra palace in Granada. There, the royal couple heard the brothers' petition; restored their freedom and their wealth; and, after much persuasion, agreed to go on Columbus' fourth voyage. From that point forward, Nicolas de Ovando was designed to be the new Governor of the Indias.



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= __This is the map of the third voyage:__ =

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