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Prince Henry the Navigator was a Portuguese royal prince, soldier, and patron of explorers.
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John Cabot was an Italian born English explorer and navigator.
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He was an Italian explorer who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, hoping to find a route to India.
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He was a Spanish conquistador who traveled through much of the Pacific coast of America along Peru.
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Columbus sailed for King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella of Spain. On his first trip Columbus led an expedition with three ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria and had about 90 crew members. They set sail on August 3, 1492 and on October 11, 1492, spotted the Caribbean island.
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On a second, larger expedition he sailed with 17 ships and 1,200 to 1,500 men to find gold and capture Indians as slaves in the Indies. He spotted and named the island of Dominica on November 3, 1493.
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On a third expedition he sailed farther south, to Trinidad and Venezuela. Also Columbus was the first European since the Viking Leif Ericsson to set foot on the mainland of America.
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he was an Italian explorer who was the first person to realize that the Americas were separate from the continent of Asia. On his first expedition he was the navigator under under the command of Alonso de Ojeda. On his second expedition he mapped some of the eastern coast of South America, and came to realize that it not part of Asia, but a New World.Born in 1454.
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He was a Spanish explorer who sailed the Atlantic Ocean and was the first European to explore Florida and the southeastern US. Born in 1500.
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He was a Spanish conquistador and explorer. He was the first European to see the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean (in 1513), after crossing the Isthmus of Panama overland. He was looking for treasures and born in 1475.
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He was a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition that sailed around the Earth (1519-1522). Magellan also named the Pacific Ocean (the name means that it is a calm, peaceful ocean). Born in 1480
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Cortes sailed with 11 ships from Cuba to the Yucatan Peninsula to look for gold, silver, and other treasures. He claimed all of Mexico for Spain in 1521. Born in 1485.
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He was an Italian navigator who, in 1524, explored the northeast coast of North America from Cape Fear, North Carolina to Maine while searching for a Northwest passage to Asia. Verrazzano sailed for King François-premier. Born in 1485.
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He was an English explorer and navigator who explored parts of the Arctic Ocean and northeastern North America. The Hudson River, Hudson Strait, and Hudson Bay are named for Hudson.
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He was a British explorer, slave-trader, privateer (a pirate working for a government) in the service of England, mayor of Plymouth, England, and naval officer (he was an Admiral). Drake led the second expedition to sail around the world in a voyage lasting from 1577 to 1580 (Magellan led the first voyage around the world). Born in 1545
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He was the first director general of New Amsterdam, a Dutch colony in America. Minuit was sent to the area by the Dutch West India Company. Minuit is famous for buying the island of Manhattan (in what is now New York, USA) from Native Americans in 1626. He bought the island with trinkets valued at about $24. Born in 1580
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He was a British explorer, poet, historian, and soldier. Raleigh led expeditions to both North America and South America; he was trying to found new settlements, find gold, and increase trade with the New World. In 1585, Raleigh sent colonists to the east coast of North America; Raleigh later named that area Virginia, in honour of Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen. He is often credited with bringing tobacco and potatoes from the New World. Born in 1554
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He was a French Jesuit priest and explorer. He sailed to Quebec in 1666 and in 1671 started a Chippewa mission at Chequamegon Bay (at the western end of Lake Superior). Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette (and five others) found the Mississippi River in 1673. Born in 1637.
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He was a British explorer and astronomer who went on many expeditions to the Pacific Ocean, Antarctic, Arctic, and around the world. Born in 1728
