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    Primary Source PigafettaTestimony On The Route of Magellans Expedition

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    Ferdinand Magellan led the first circumnavigation of the world from 1519-1522. Only one of Magellan's five ships, the Victoria, completed the journey, arriving back in Spain in 1522 and becoming the first vessel to sail around the globe. The expedition suffered greatly from starvation, scurvy, and attacks by Portuguese ships. Only 18 of the original 270 crew members survived to finish the journey. Magellan was killed in the Philippines in 1521, and the Victoria was commanded by Juan Sebastian de Elcano on its return voyage.

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    Ferdinand Magellan led the first circumnavigation of the world from 1519-1522. Only one of Magellan's five ships, the Victoria, completed the journey, arriving back in Spain in 1522 and becoming the first vessel to sail around the globe. The expedition suffered greatly from starvation, scurvy, and attacks by Portuguese ships. Only 18 of the original 270 crew members survived to finish the journey. Magellan was killed in the Philippines in 1521, and the Victoria was commanded by Juan Sebastian de Elcano on its return voyage.

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    Ferdinand Magellan led the first circumnavigation of the world from 1519-1522. Only one of Magellan's five ships, the Victoria, completed the journey, arriving back in Spain in 1522 and becoming the first vessel to sail around the globe. The expedition suffered greatly from starvation, scurvy, and attacks by Portuguese ships. Only 18 of the original 270 crew members survived to finish the journey. Magellan was killed in the Philippines in 1521, and the Victoria was commanded by Juan Sebastian de Elcano on its return voyage.

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    Primary Source PigafettaTestimony On The Route of Magellans Expedition

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    Ferdinand Magellan led the first circumnavigation of the world from 1519-1522. Only one of Magellan's five ships, the Victoria, completed the journey, arriving back in Spain in 1522 and becoming the first vessel to sail around the globe. The expedition suffered greatly from starvation, scurvy, and attacks by Portuguese ships. Only 18 of the original 270 crew members survived to finish the journey. Magellan was killed in the Philippines in 1521, and the Victoria was commanded by Juan Sebastian de Elcano on its return voyage.

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    expedition
    • One of Ferdinand Magellan’s five ships—the Victoria—arrives at Sanlúcar de
    Barrameda in Spain, thus completing the first circumnavigation of the world.
    The Victoria was commanded by Basque navigator Juan Sebastian de Elcano, who took
    charge of the vessel after the murder of Magellan in the Philippines in April 1521.

    • During a long, hard journey home, the people on the ship suffered from starvation,
    scurvy, and harassment by Portuguese ships.

    •Only Elcano, 17 other Europeans, and four Indians survived to reach Spain in
    September 1522.

    •On September 20, 1519, Magellan set sail from Spain in an effort to find a western sea
    route to the rich Spice Islands of Indonesia.

    • In command of five ships and 270 men, Magellan sailed to West Africa and then to
    Brazil, where he searched the South American coast for a strait that would take him to
    the Pacific. He searched the Rio de la Plata, a large estuary south of Brazil, for a way
    through; failing, he continued south along the coast of Patagonia. At the end of March
    1520, the expedition set up winter quarters at Port St. Julian.

    • On Easter day at midnight, the Spanish captains mutinied against their Portuguese
    captain, but Magellan crushed the revolt, executing one of the captains and leaving
    another ashore when his ship left St. Julian in August.

    •On October 21, he finally discovered the strait he had been seeking. The Strait of
    Magellan, as it became known, is located near the tip of South America, separating
    Tierra del Fuego and the continental mainland.

    •Only three ships entered the passage; one had been wrecked and another deserted. It
    took 38 days to navigate the treacherous strait, and when ocean was sighted at the other
    end Magellan wept with joy.

    •He was the first European explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic. His
    fleet accomplished the westward crossing of the ocean in 99 days, crossing waters so
    strangely calm that the ocean was named “Pacific,” from the Latin
    word pacificus, meaning “tranquil.” By the end, the men were out of food and chewed the
    leather parts of their gear to keep themselves alive. On March 6, 1521, the expedition
    landed at the island of Guam.

    •Ten days later, they dropped anchor at the Philippine island of Cebu –they were only
    about 400 miles from the Spice Islands. Magellan met with the chief of Cebú, who after
    converting to Christianity persuaded the Europeans to assist him in conquering a rival
    tribe on the neighboring island of Mactan. In subsequent fighting on April 27, Magellan
    was hit by a poisoned arrow and left to die by his retreating comrades.

    •After Magellan’s death, the survivors, in two ships, sailed on to the Moluccas and
    loaded the hulls with spice. One ship attempted, unsuccessfully, to return across the
    Pacific. The other ship, the Victoria, continued west under the command of Juan
    Sebastian de Elcano.

    •The vessel sailed across the Indian Ocean, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and
    arrived at the Spanish port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda on September 6, 1522, becoming
    the first ship to circumnavigate the globe.

    • The Victoria then sailed up the Guadalquivir River, reaching Seville a few days
    later.Elcano was later appointed to lead a fleet of seven ships on another voyage to
    Moluccas on behalf of Emperor Charles V. He died of scurvy en route.

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