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Bartholomew Columbus (Genoese: Bertomê Corombo; Portuguese: Bartolomeu Colombo; Spanish: Bartolomé Colón; Italian: Bartolomeo Colombo; c. 1461 – 12 August 1515) was an Italian explorer from the Republic of Genoa and the younger brother of Christopher Columbus.
Bartholomew Columbus (born 15th century, Genoa [Italy]—died 1514/15, Santo Domingo, Hispaniola [now Dominican Republic]) was an Italian explorer, brother of Christopher Columbus, accomplished cartographer and cosmographer, and probably collaborator on his brother’s project to sail around the world.
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Learn about Bartholomew Columbus, the brother of Christopher Columbus, who helped him plan and execute his voyages to the Americas. Find out his role as a navigator, governor, and adelantado of the Indies, and his involvement in the rebellion and mutiny of Hispaniola.
Bartholomew Columbus was a cartographer and navigator who supported his brother Christopher in his voyages to the Americas. He served as governor of Hispaniola, where he faced rebellions, tribute demands, and royal investigations.
- The First Expedition: Discovery of The Presumed Far East
- The Second Expedition: Colonization of Hispaniola and Search For The Mainland
- Hispaniola
- Central America
- The New Year: 1503
- Epilogue
- Notes
The first voyage, a three-ship venture a decade earlier in 1492, had as its precise object the finding of a western route to what we even today call “The Far East.” Columbus discovered instead obstacles on the way to such a route: the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola. Thinking, however, that he had succeeded and was indeed in “the Far East,” he explor...
Six months later. on September 25, 1493–almost exactly 510 years ago this Columbus Day–he set out on his second voyage as the newly-titled Admiral of the Ocean Sea (i.e., “of the Atlantic Ocean”) and Viceroy and Governor of the lands he had discovered and would discover in “the region of the Indies.” He had to succor the small ad hoc settlement of ...
The Hispaniola phase started when, after arriving in the New World.Columbus ignored the royal prohibition and turned toward Santo Domingo, on the plea that one of his four ships was proving unsuitable for exploration and he wanted to trade it there for another. Before he arrived there, his experienced eye detected signs of a coming hurricane (he ha...
There followed a miserable 28 days of extremely slow progress beating eastward against the wind in terrible stormy conditions until finally the coast dropped off to the south and there was better sailing. In about three weeks they arrived at the beautiful Chiriqui lagoon near the Costa Rica – Panama border, and spent ten days there recovering from ...
Veragua
But in the dawning days of the new year more favorable weather now made it possible for him to make it quickly back to Veragua. On January 6 he christened one of the two rivers in that area Rio Belén, for “Bethlehem,” in honor of the Feast of the Epiphany. (The first Mass known to have been offered in the New World had been celebrated exactly ten years before on this day at La Navidad.) Though in much more recent years the passage over the bar is much shallower, at that time, with six or seve...
Exodus
On Easter night, April 16, 1503 the three ships left Veragua. Columbus planned to head for Santo Domingo for repairs and then sail for Spain. While his pilots all thought Hispaniola was north of them, his calculations correctly indicated it to be northeast, from which came the prevailing wind. Ships at that time could not sail against the wind (that is, tack, or beat) closer than 56 degrees5, so the Admiral decided to sail eastward before heading in a more northerly direction, which would giv...
Jamaica
Finally the situation on Santiago got so bad that Columbus realized that in the condition they were in his ships could never make it directly to Hispaniola (the nearest port of which was about 200 miles East Southeast) against wind and current. It was almost a month after they had reached Cuba. He was now sufficiently far east to head down-wind to Jamaica, aiming to hit that island as far eastward as he could, as a possible jumping-off point for Hispaniola. He reached it on the night of June...
We leave the final word on Veragua to Morison and Obregón 9: In subsequent years Felipe Gutierrez and other conquistadors attempted in vain to subdue the natives of Veragua from the Pacific side. The crown in 1537 granted Veragua, between the Rio Belén and Puerto Limón, to Don Luis Colón, the Admiral’s worthless grandson, together with the title Du...
1 Samuel Eliot Morison, Admiral of the Ocean Sea, vol. 2(New York: Time, 1962), p. 439 2 Ibid. 3 Gianni Granzotto, Christopher Columbus(Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987), p. 258 4 Morison, vol. 1, p. 61 5 Morison, vol. 1, p. 12 6 Morison, vol. 2, p. 622 7 Morison, vol. 2, p. 624 8 Morison, vol. 2, p. 627 9 Morison and Obregón, p...
Nov 12, 2017 · Learn about the life and achievements of Bartholomew Columbus, the navigator, discoverer and cartographer who accompanied his brother Christobal on his voyages to the New World. Find out how he founded Santo Domingo, fought against natives and rebels, and was arrested and exiled by the Spanish.
Learn about Bartholomeo Columbus, the lesser known brother of Cristoforo, who also sailed to the New World and founded Santo Domingo. Discover his role in the \"Enterprise of the Indies\" and his adventures with his brother and nephew.
