Category: THE TRUE STORY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS CALLED THE GREAT ADMIRAL
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CHAPTER 5: HOW THEY FARED ON THE SEA OF DARKNESS
Did you ever set out, in the dark, to walk with your little brother or sister along a road you did not know much about or had never gone over before? It was not an easy thing to do, was it? And how did your little brother or sister feel when it was known that…
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Chistopher Columbus: CHAPTER 4: HOW THE ADMIRAL SAILED AWAY.
The agreement made between Columbus and the king and queen of Spain was signed on the seventeenth of April, 1492. But it was four months before he was quite ready to sail away. He selected the town of Palos as the place to sail from, because there, as you know, Captain Pinzon lived; there, too,…
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THE TRUE STORY OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS CALLED THE GREAT ADMIRAL
Elbridge S. Brooks’ “The True Story of Christopher Columbus” depicts Columbus’s ambition, challenges, and achievements, inspiring young readers through his exploration and perseverance.
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CHAPTER III. HOW COLUMBUS GAINED A QUEEN FOR HIS FRIEND.
When you wish very much to do a certain thing it is dreadfully hard to be patient; it is harder still to have to wait. Columbus had to do both. The wars against the Moors were of much greater interest to the king and queen of Spain than was the finding of a new and…
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CHAPTER II. WHAT PEOPLE THOUGHT OF THE IDEA.
I do not wish you to think that Columbus was the first man to say that the earth was round, or the first to sail to the West over the Atlantic Ocean. He was not. Other men had said that they believed the earth was round; other men had sailed out into the Atlantic Ocean.…
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CHAPTER I. BOY WITH AN IDEA.
Men who do great things are men we all like to read about. This is the story of Christopher Columbus, the man who discovered America. He lived four hundred years ago. When he was a little boy he lived in Genoa. It was a beautiful city in the northwestern part of the country called Italy.…