Columbus's Outpost among the Taínos : Spain and America at La Isabela, 1493-1498 / José María Cruxent, Kathleen Deagan.

In 1493 Christopher Columbus led a fleet of seventeen ships and more than twelve hundred 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, ho...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via De Gruyter)
Main Author:	Cruxent, José María (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2008]
Subjects:	Indians > First contact with other peoples.