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There are those, though, who see Columbus as nothing more than a remorseless tyrant and they feel that it is an insult to celebrate on 12 October; they believe that Spain should not be marking 'genocide' with a military parade that costs the country around , euros each year.
During the nineteenth century, many anti-immigrant groups in America rejected the holiday due to its association with Catholicism. Others have replaced Columbus Day, which became a public holiday in the US in , with Indigenous Peoples Day, a counter-celebration commemorating the history of Native American peoples. Activists in Barcelona want the holiday cancelled and a statue of Columbus removed from La Rambla, but both ideas have so far been rejected.
Badalona city council, which has long supported the idea of the region breaking away from Spain, has banned the celebration, saying the holiday celebrated the genocide of the Americas. They also claim it has Francoist connotations. Critics of Hispanic Day have argued that the holiday should be banned across Spain on the grounds that former dictator, General Francisco Franco, favoured the day as a way to extol the values of his dictatorship.
He convinced the queen to influence the king, and the explorer was called to court to re-present a proposal they had already rejected once. The explorer demanded the hereditary positions of Admiral of the Ocean Sea and Viceroy and Governor of any lands he found, granting him a percentage of all revenues from new territories.
After rejecting him once more, the Spanish monarchs reconsidered and agreed. Before departing in August of , Columbus pledged allegiance to the Spanish crown at the Convent of Santa Clara in neighbouring Sevilla. To this day this architecturally outstanding national monument remains a place of pilgrimage for tourists for its Columbus connection. Columbus did a lot of praying, as any sail ship captain would in those mapless days.
Highly revered by Columbus and his crew, he promised to revisit her on his return. The white-washed sanctuary is still standing today on El Conquero hill and continues to attract tourists. Replicas of this famous nautical trio can be toured today. What Columbus thought was Asia was in fact the Bahamas.
He named the first island he discovered San Salvador, before reaching Cuba and Hispaniola where La Navidad settlement was founded with permission from the indigenous people.
He set sail again in September with a fleet of 17 ships, exploring the Caribbean and revisiting La Navidad, where a new settlement had to be founded because the men he had left behind had all been killed.
Hundreds of indigenous people were enslaved and many died on the return journey. On his third trip in , Columbus discovered Trinidad and Venezuela and plunged deeper into South America. Still convinced he was visiting Asia, despite mounting evidence to the contrary, he returned to Spain and was made Viceroy and Governor of the Indies. Accusations of tyranny and incompetence lead to his downfall. In , he and his brothers were jailed for alleged atrocities against the native populations.
Columbus was released in time to set sail on a fourth and final voyage in search of a westward passage to the Indian Ocean. Again he fetched up on the other side of the Atlantic, this time reaching Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama before being beached in Jamaica, where he and his crew were stranded for a year.
The explorer returned to Spain for the last time in and died two years later in Valladolid, at the age of around The house is now a museum dedicated to his discovery of America. Still convinced he had reached the Indies, but stripped of his governor titles and denied the profits from his New World discoveries, he died a disappointed man.
He would be pleased to know that he is held in far higher regard today, with his own national holiday in Spain. Italy was established in , so how could he be italian? By the way, the biggest promoter of that idea Columbus being italian was Mussolini.
What we know is that he sailed with spanish sailors in spanish boats departing from Spain and funded by Spain. Not a day that the indigenous peoples of Central and South America will be celebrating, nor any other of the lands conquered by white Europeans such as Australia, New Zealand or the whole of North America. Stuart, the opposite was demonstrated by the Chinese emperors.
Emperor Jongle in ordered Chinese admiral Zheng-He to discover the sea routes to India just in the other direction that Columbus took. Zheng-He with 40 ships finally reached the eastern shores of Africa. But then Jongle ordered Zheng-He back to China and no more exploration by ship took place.
Maybe China today tries to catchup what Jongle missed to do in Africa.
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