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Article: Santa Maria
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SANTA MARIA
SANTA MARIA.
The
Santa Maria,
the flagship of Christopher Columbus, headed the fleet of three vessels that reached the New World on 12 October 1492. Two months later, on Christmas Eve, it ran aground off the coast of Hispaniola, in the present-day Dominican Republic. From the ship's wreckage Columbus had a fort erected at La Navidad before he left for Spain. He found the fort destroyed and its garrison murdered when he returned in November 1493. Although the colony established there faltered and ...
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