Christopher Columbus Quote

I wished to give a complete relation to your Highnesses, and also where a fort might be built…. However, I do not see it to be necessary, because these people are simple in weapons…. With fifty men I could subjugate them all and make them do everything that is required of them.


14 October 1492 - Journal of the First Voyage


I wished to give a complete relation to your Highnesses, and also where a fort might be built…. However, I do not see it to be necessary, because...

I wished to give a complete relation to your Highnesses, and also where a fort might be built…. However, I do not see it to be necessary, because...

I wished to give a complete relation to your Highnesses, and also where a fort might be built…. However, I do not see it to be necessary, because...

I wished to give a complete relation to your Highnesses, and also where a fort might be built…. However, I do not see it to be necessary, because...