Birds Eye View
Persistence of a Dream
He ran four expeditions. The
first was three ships, one of which
he commandeered and landed in
the Bahama Group and Hispaniola. On later expeditions, it was
the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico,
Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad, Venezuela and Honduras.
Early, in his career, he was shipwrecked on a Portuguese coast.
Much later, he was marooned in
Jamaica. Authorities once put him
in chains and shipped him home.
Obstacles were numerous, mainly
establishment problems as well as,
mutiny aboard ship, colonist disarray, and transportation of convicts.
The Admiral of the Sea was a Genoesan who historically has been in
competition with Americo Vespucci and Leif Ericsson. He had a
lot of chutzpau to have a fleet of
seventeen ships with fifteen hundred colonists aboard. As governor
of the new lands, historical concepts of his accomplishments are
tarnished by Native Americans
whose history symbolizes the brutal aspects of European Colonization.
Christopher Columbus had a
dream. I didn’t know that, I just
figured Isabella and Ferdinand
handed him the
job. “Go find
some western
islands”. If we
have our heads
on straight, we
must
realize
that in the sceShirley Riggs
nario of an adventurer, there are obstacles and
there is competition.
Christopher Columbus’ “Enterprise of the Indies,” took eight
years of persistence on his part to
accomplish. He was endowed with
the personhood to begin an enterprisers dream. Vain enough to
think he could accomplish such a
mission, he was ambitious, greedy
and ruthless. He married wealth
and utilized various background
skills to his advantage. This Master Mariner used his weaving, map
charting and trading with mentors
of pilots and navigators to support
and train him. An inside source
was the commander of the ship, Y Shirley Riggs, member Colorado
the Pinta named Martin Alonso Press Association; www.enlightPinzon.
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