Columbus, Christopher

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1. An Italian explorer responsible for the European discovery of America in 1492. He had sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain, under the patronage of the king and queen, Ferdinand and Isabella, hoping to find a westward route to India. His ships were the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. Columbus made four voyages to the New World, visiting the Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Trinidad, Venezuela, and the coast of Central America.

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Columbus, Christopher, was he a Spaniard, of Jewish ancestry?

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Columbus, Christopher, I, 323; II, 178, 194, 244, 357.

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Duke of, 242; death of, 268 Clarke, Mr. Frederick, 216, 217 Clarke, Mr. Rochfort and pictures, 73, 74 Cleveland, Caroline, Duchess of, 82 Clinton, Lord Edward, 212 Colombo, 247 Columbus, Christopher, how he discovered America, 348, 349 Connaught, T.R.H.

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Columbus, Christopher, 6, 25, 43-46.

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England settled by, 296; in war zone, 297 Christianity, in Africa, 92, 95 ff.; in Latin America, 137 Civitas Dei, 170 Cochin-China, 247 Colombia, settlement of, 107, 113; revolution in, 113; anti-American sentiment in, 136 Colored-Bolshevist alliance, 233 Columbus, Christopher, 103, 145, 147 Confucius, 24; followers of, 73 Congo, 101, 142 Conquistadores, 105 ff.,

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