Ferdinand magellan mini biography george michael

From the Modern History Sourcebook:

Ferdinand de Magellan was born about of noble parents, and probably spent his boyhood as a page of the Queen of Portugal. As a young man he was in the East India service, then in Morocco.

After a slight from King Manuel, he enlisted under the Spanish king, and set forth his project for a trip round the world.

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The expedition set sail August 10, Magellan was killed in April at Zebu [in the Philippines], but they had already reached the eastern edge of the known world, and his men completed the voyage to Spain. The voyage proved that the earth is round (although most educated people knew this already!).

This source of this account is a transcription from the paper-book of a Genoese pilot," who came in the said ship, who wrote all the voyage as it is here.

He went to Portugal in the year with Dom Amriqui de Menezes."

HE [Magellan] sailed from Seville on the 10th day of August of the said year [], and remained at the bar until the 21st day