First Return Trip of Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus had made it to the New World(Read about his journey here). It had taken Columbus a lifetime of preparation, years of study, countless disappointments but he had made the journey of his dreams. Columbus and the crew were thrilled at their new discovery. They met Native people at each island they went to, […]
Early Years of Christopher Columbus
”History has all the worlds best stories, and the life of the weaver’s son who discovered America could hardly be matched even by the most inventive imagination.” Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Childhood of Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy. Columbus’s grandfather, Giovanni Columba, shows up on town records on the year 1429, when he […]
Christopher Columbus Quotes by LDS Leaders
Orson Hyde “Journal of Discourses, Discovery of America by Columbus” Another circumstance I will call your attention to. In the first place, every great enterprise is attended with its difficulties, its hardships, and oppositions, for there must needs be opposition in all things. 2 Ne. 2:11 We are told that in the year 1492 this American continent was […]