'Magellan\'s Great Expedition'

'On August 10, 1519, vanadium ships (Trinidad, San Antonio, Concepción, Victoria, and Santiago) under Magellans curb left Seville and traveled from the Guadalquivir River to Sanlú motorcar de Barrameda at the mouth of the river, where they remained more(prenominal) than cardinal weeks. Spanish authorities were alert of the Lusitanian full admiral and almost prevented Magellan from sailing, and switched his crowd of mostly Lusitanian workforce with men of Spain, yet on September 20, Magellan intend sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men. king Manuel ordered a naval backdown to pursue Ferdinand Magellan, just Magellan avoided the Portuguese. After taenia at the sneak Islands, Ferdinand Magellan arrived at the chimneypiece Verde Islands, where they set data track for Cape St. Augustine in Brazil. On November 27, they cross the equator; on declination 6, the lot sight Brazil. \nSince Brazil was Portuguese territory, Magellan avoided it, and on decli nation 13 anchored rough present-day Rio de Janeiro. in that location the crew was resupplied, but bad conditions caused them to delay. Afterwards, they keep to sail to the south along sulfur the Statess east coast, look for the strait that Magellan believed would cartroad to the Spice Islands. The reach reached Río de la Plata on January 10, 1520. On bump into 30, the crew naturalised a cloture that they called Puerto San Julian. A rebel involving two of the five ship passe-partouts stony-broke out. It was unsuccessful because the crew remained loyal. Sebastian del Cano was one of those who were forgiven. Antonio Pigafetta relates that Gaspar Quesada, the schoolmaster of Concepcion, was penalize; Juan de Cartagena, the captain of the San Antonio, and a priest named Padre Sanchez dela Reina were preferably marooned on the coast. Another bet states that Luis de Mendoza, the captain of Victoria, was executed along with Quesada.[4] \nThe go of Magellan cut finishe d the southern acme of South America connecting the Atlantic and Pacific.The voyage resumed. ... '