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Although Christopher Columbus was Italian in nationality, he sailed under the commission of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. On the evening of 3 August 1492, Columbus set sail from Palos de la Frontera in Huelva, Spain.
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He was trying to sail around the globe to India (to the west instead of the east because he wanted to prove that the world was round, not flat) but he hit, what is known, as Cuba (Everyone thought America didn't exist).

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On his first voyage he set sail fromPalos in Southern Spain on August 3, 1492, on his second voyage he set sail from Hierro in the Canary Islands on October 13, 1493. On his third voyage he set sail from Sanlucar in Southern Spain on May 30, 1498. Then on his fourth and final voyage he set sail from Cadiz on May 11, 1502. SPAIN SPAIN He didn't set sail from Spain every time, on his Second Voyage he set sail from the Canary Islands, they may have been in the control of Spain at the time, it is still not technically Spain.

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He thought he landed in India, but it was actually the Bahamas.

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He set sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain on the evening of August 3rd, 1492.

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Palos, Spain

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