Columbus's outpost among the Taínos : Spain and America at La Isabela, 1493-1498 /
In 1493, Christopher Columbus led a fleet of 17 ships and more than 1200 men to found a royal trading colony in America. Columbus had high hopes for his settlement, which he named La Isabela after the queen of Spain, but just five years later it was in ruins. It remains important, however, as the fi...
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New Haven, Conn. :
Yale University Press,
2002
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