Magellan
In Sabrosa Portugal, Spring of 1480 a great man was born. His name was Ferdinand Magellan. Magellan was the son of a nobleman. His mother's name was Alda Magalhaes. He also had a sister Isabel Magalhaes and a brother Diogo Magalhaes. As a boy he served as a page to the Portuguese Queen. He joined the army as a young man and spent 7 years as a soldier in India and the East Indies. Magellan was also married to Betriz Barbosa and had a son Rodrigo Barbosa, before he attempted the following. Some time in 1519, when Magellan was about 39 years old he decided to
After four and a half months, sailors almost dead, they finally reached inlands in which they called the Philippines. He first asked the king of Portugal who had doubts but told him he was free to offer his services elsewhere. The Trinidad, San Antonio, Conception, Victoria, and the Santiago along with 270 men. As they continued south the weather grew more stormier and bitter. Then headed through the strait and into what he named the Pacific Ocean. And tempers of crew members got worse. Magellan found what he was looking for, a strait. Trying to show how strong Spain was , Magellan was killed by Mactan Ruler, Lapu Lapu, on April 27, 1521. They had to spend the winter on the coast near the tip of South America repairing boats. Which is now named after him, "The Magellan Strait". They left Spain on September 20, 1519 and set out across the Atlantic and then turned south along the coast of South America. Captain of the Victoria, Juan Sebastian del Cano, sailed across the Indian Ocean, around southern Africa, and then northward in the Atlantic.
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