First voyage of Christopher Columbus, Aug 3, 1492

Historical maritime painting of ornate sailing ships and people waving flag.
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The first voyage of Christopher Columbus, the ships for the first voyage—the Niña, Pinta, and Santa María—were fitted out at Palos, on the Tinto River in Spain. Consortia put together by a royal treasury official and composed mainly of Genoese and Florentine bankers in Sevilla (Seville) provided at least 1,140,000 maravedis to outfit the expedition, and Columbus supplied more than a third of the sum contributed by the king and queen. The little fleet left on August 3, 1492.

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