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 Magellan in Guam Home Page
             Without Guam, Ferdinand Magellan could hardly have been the first human to circumnavigate the globe.  Through the winter and spring of 1521, his three remaining ships had been on the high seas for 100 days without spotting a single island of significance.
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 Ferdinand Magellan
Magellan had completed the most difficult part of his voyage when he was killed in a campaign against a native king at Mactan Island in the Philippines in 1521.
Magellan's weary sailors, who had been shivering ever since their arrival at Port St. Julian over eight months before, rejoiced as sun and milder air began to caress their skins.
Grabbing Cartagena by the shirtfront, he icily declared that the Spaniard was his prisoner.
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Magellan insisted to his recalcitrant crew that no possibility should be overlooked.
Luckily, when Magellan stopped at the Canary Islands to resupply, a fast ship from Spain arrived to warn him of the conspiracy.
The diarist wrote: "We ate crumbling biscuits infested with grubs, and drank water filthy and stinking.
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 Ferdinand Magellan
Magellan felt that he had converted the natives to Christianity.
As Magellan went from island to island, he converted the natives to Christianity.
To reach the island, Magellan and his men had to get out of their boasts and wade ashore.
http://www.esd.k12.ca.us/Matsumoto/TM30/history/Explorers/fmag.html   (971 words)

  
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Magellan was convinced that he would lead his ships from the Atlantic to the "Sea of the South" by discovering a strait through Tierra Firme.
Early in 1516 Magellan renewed his petition; the King, refusing once more, told him he might offer his services elsewhere.
For bringing home, on Sept. 8, 1522, the leaking but spice-laden ship, with only 17 other European survivors and 4 Indians, "weaker than men have ever been before," Elcano received from the Emperor an augmentation to his coat of arms, a globe with the inscription "Primus circumdedisti me" ("You were the first to encircle me").
http://www.mdstud.chalmers.se/~md2nicke/MISSUPPFATTNINGAR/magellan.txt   (1762 words)

  
 Ferdinand Magellan
Magellan converted the chief of the island of Cebu to Christianity.
They started a mutiny, but Magellan quickly suppressed the uprising, and put some of the leaders to death.
The Christian chief then turned against the Spaniards, murdering some and driving the rest from the island.
http://www.3rd1000.com/history3/explorers/magellanbio.htm   (966 words)

  
 European Voyages of Exploration: Magellan
This report antagonised Magellan's superiors but Magellan refused to retract his claims.
Six days out of port a pinnace intercepted the fleet with a letter that said that three of Magellan's captains were plotting to murder him.
In Morocco he was given a good post, due in part to his good friendship with John of Lisbon who was the foremost navigator in Portugal.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/magellan.html   (4191 words)

  
 Ferdinand Magellan
In 1512, Magellan was stationed in Morocco and made preliminary plans to find a western shortcut to the Spice Islands.
Mactan, who had become upset with Magellan's insistence that he convert, ordered his warriors to attack.
On September 20, 1519 Magellan and 237 crew members set sail on five ships from Sanlucar de Barrameda in the hopes of finding a shortcut to the Spice Islands.
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/magellan.htm   (530 words)

  
 PlanetPapers - Ferdinand Magellan
Magellan was certain that he could find the Spice Islands by sailing west, and in 1508 he asked King Charles I for some ships.
Magellan made it possible for his crew to sail around the world.
Magellan heard reports of new discoveries brought back by returning ships.
http://www.planetpapers.com/Assets/741.php   (1132 words)

  
 BBC - History - Ferdinand Magellan (1480 - 1521)
In 1512, Magellan returned to Lisbon, and the following year, he was wounded during an expedition to Morocco.
This time, he captained a fleet of four ships and was charged with finding a westward sea passage to East Asia.
He did, however, make his mark on history as the first European to sail south of the Americas and cross the Pacific Ocean.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/magellan_ferdinand.shtml   (368 words)

  
 Ferdinand Magellan
That is how we know the whole story of how Magellan's expedition was the first ever to sail all the way around the world.
Magellan sailed all the way around the world.
Eighteen members of Magellan's crew sailed all the way around the world.
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 Ferdinand Magellan
Magellan achieved what Columbus planned -- the linking of west Europe with east Asia by direct transit over the western ocean.
Antonio Pigafetta of Vicenza, an Italian gentleman who has left the best history of the voyage, went as a volunteer in Magellan's suite.
On the 20th of September the armada put to sea.
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 Amazon.com: Magellan: Books: Tim Joyner
With powerful backing, Magellan finds King Charles more receptive to his plans to open a spice route to the West, and in September 1519 five ships set sail under his command.
A straightforward but tepid biography from fisheries biologist Joyner of the great visionary Magellan, whose resolve to reach the Spice Islands by sailing around the lands encountered by Columbus and others prompted the first circumnavigation of the globe.
Few crew members survived, and even fewer wrote of their experiences.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/087742263X?v=glance   (1544 words)

  
 Ferdinand Magellan
The leader of the natives on a third island refused to convert.
The king of Spain agreed to support Magellan and gave him five ships.
Magellan asked for volunteers to attack the island but only 60 men joined him.
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.net/magellan.htm   (662 words)

  
 Ferdinand Magellan
Most of Magellan’s crew were prisoners and had to be let out of jail.
The crew left with two hundred and forty men that day but only eighteen survived the trip.
Ferdinand Magellan made the voyage possible because he convinced the teenager king that some of the Spice Islands were in some of the undiscovered world.
http://bg016.k12.sd.us/Explorers/ferdinand_magellan.htm   (231 words)

  
 Building a Nation Unit 2
One of his five ships, without Magellan, completed the voyage.
(The “Spice Islands” was the name at that time for certain spice-rich islands in present-day Southeast Asia.) Then Magellan got the idea that he could reach the islands by sailing west.
Magellan was killed, one ship was abandoned, and the remaining two ships made it to the nearby Spice Islands.
http://www.sfsocialstudies.com/BAN/u2/magellan.html   (265 words)

  
 Ferdinand Magellan: The first to go around the world : National Maritime Museum
It was the passage for which they had been searching since they left home.
Although he had masterminded the first expedition to sail around the world, he did not complete the voyage himself.
Later, he accompanied Magellan as an interpreter on the circumnavigation.
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.142   (797 words)

  
 Ferdinand Magellan
Magellan had started his voyage with 240 men and 5 ships.
With how many ships did Magellan start his journey?
Magellan had problems with some of his captains.
http://www.lkwdpl.org/schools/emerson/magellan.htm   (304 words)

  
 Ferdinand Magellan
This is one of the very few primary sources to be found on the Internet.
Best of all, this information is presented in a Question-and-Answer format, and most of the questions are ones you have anyway!
Follow Ferdinand Magellan as he follows his dream to sail around the world.
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 C·R·E·A·T·E for Mississippi >> Classroom Resouces >> Lesson Plans >> ...
The students will use Microsoft Encarta and view Web sites on the World Wide Web to learn about Ferdinand Magellan.
The student will use information taken from the World Wide Web and Microsoft Encarta to create a timeline of Magellan's voyage and life.
Encourage students to use graphics and/or clip art to enhance the portrayal of the events in Magellan's life.
http://www.create.cett.msstate.edu/create/classroom/lplan_view.asp?articleID=76   (1021 words)

  
 Ferdinand Magellan
Magellan did not live to complete the voyage, but his imaginative planning and courageous leadership made the entire expedition possible.
Ferdinand Magellan started out to be a Portuguese sea captain who commanded the first expedition that sailed around the world.
In 1513 Magellan returned home to Portugal to join a military expedition to Morocco on the expedition he suffered a wound that made him limp for the rest of his life, he suffered the wound in a local war against some Indians.
http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/OakViewES/smith/97-98/sixthhome/ferinand.html   (346 words)

  
 Ferdinand Magellan
Columbus died believing he proved Aristotle correct, but the real confirmation came in the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan, the captain of the first ship to sail completely around the world.
Magellan had survived eighteen months at sea, but he was killed in battle in the Philippines.
Magellan realized that Enrique was the first person to have traveled completely around the world.
http://www.mrdowling.com/704-magellan.html   (334 words)

  
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Magellan and his crew resumed their voyage on October the 18th 1520.
Magellan and loyal crew members put down the mutiny and executed the leader.
The crew of Portuguese sea captain Ferdinand Magellan were the first Europeans to sail around the world, proving that the world was round.
http://www.iol.ie/~jomerps/HomePage/Projects/World_Explorers/Ferdinand_Magellan.html   (708 words)

  
 Bisita Guam: Ferdinand Magellan
By the time of his death, Magellan had already passed longitudinally the Spice Islands which he had visited on an earlier expedition from the opposite direction; thus, Magellan had fully circumnavigated the globe by sailing it one-half at a time, under the flags of two bitterly opposed nations.
By nourishing Magellan and his crew, it made it possible for them to continue their journey which proved that the earth was round.
This practice was not unlike that among warring nations, whose history books were written by the victors.
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 Ferdinand Magellan
Magellan died in Mactan, while trying to convert a native chief to Christianity.
All of his crew ran to the ships, but Magellan walked slowly back to the ship, thinking that he would be perfectly safe in his armor.
While Magellan was not able to complete his voyage entirely around the world, his crew led by Juan Sebastian Del Cano, took control of the ship and continued on home, with 47 men and 2 ships.
http://www.wtisbury.mv.k12.ma.us/projects/explorer_web/05explorer_web/truda.html   (442 words)

  
 Magellan, Ferdinand on Encyclopedia.com
Sighting the South American coast near Pernambuco, he searched for the suspected passage to the South Sea.
Ferdinand Magellan and His First Voyage Around the World
While wintering in Patagonia (Mar.-Aug., 1520), he summarily put down a mutiny of some of his officers.
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 Ferdinand Magellan Magellan's Voyage Around the World Age of Discovery of Portuguese Pioneers Questia.com ...
This era began with the voyage of Magellan in 1521 and lasted through the first...against such attempts.
For instance, the discoveries of Magellan in his voyage of circumnavigation are...
...America, from Columbus to Magellan OF THE THREE PARTS into...plans to his patrons; King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella he says...to South America.
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He got five ships and left Seville on September 20, 1519.
Even though he didn't live to the end of the trip Magellan is still considered the leader of the first circumnavigation around the world.
He found the westward passage and it was named the Strait of Magellan in his name.
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/projects/renaissance/magellan.html   (355 words)

  
 Ferdinand Magellan - definition of Ferdinand Magellan in Encyclopedia
Magellan had provided in his will that his Malay interpreter was to be freed upon his death.
His interpreter, who was baptized Enrique (Henry) in Malacca 1511, had been captured by Sumatran slavers from his home islands.
Magellan was able to communicate with the native peoples because his Malay interpreter could understand their language.
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 MSN Encarta - Magellan
The king canceled a promotion Magellan had received for his valor against the Moors and later denied his request for a fleet to prove that the Moluccas could be reached by sailing west.
Magellan won the king’s approval for his voyage.
During five months there, Magellan suppressed a mutiny of his Spanish officers, who were jealous because Magellan was Portuguese.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761570410/Magellan.html   (896 words)

  
 Ferdinand Magellan - Simple English Wikipedia
This was the first ship known to sail around the world.
One of the crew, Henry, a Malay interpreter who was picked up by Magellan on his earlier trip for Portugal, became the very first person known to travel all the way around the world, when they reached his home country and he stayed there.
This page was last changed at 03:04, 8 April 2006.
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 Ferdinand magellan - 404 ~ The Mariners' Museum ~ Newport News, Virginia
Ferdinand Magellan The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a
Ferdinand Magellan is famous for planning the voyage that first went around the world.
At best, Ferdinand Magellan and his crew were the first Europeans to visit To his credit, Ferdinand Magellan did much more than to "happen" upon Guam.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ferdinand Magellan
As he could not hope to arouse interest for the carrying out of his plans in Portugal, and was himself, moreover misjudged and ignored, he renounced his nationality and offered his services to Spain.
Magellan himself did not reach his goal, the Spice Islands; yet he had accomplished the most difficult part of his task.
Magellan wished to subdue the neighbouring Island of Mactan and was killed there, 27 April, by the poisoned arrows of the natives.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09526b.htm   (1215 words)

  
 Gold Coast Railroad Museum - Ferdinand Magellan
The Ferdinand Magellan is the only passenger railcar ever designated a "National Historic Landmark" by the United States government.
This honor was bestowed on the Ferdinand Magellan by the United States, Department of the Interior, National Parks Service in February.
One other railcar was built for President Lincoln in the early 1860's, however Lincoln refused to ride in it calling it "too fancy and ornate." The car was used to carry the president's body to his burial place after he was assassinated.
http://www.goldcoast-railroad.org/magellan.htm   (652 words)

  
 Magellan, Ferdinand - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Magellan, Ferdinand
Magellan was brought up at court and entered the royal service, but later transferred his services to Spain.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
He and his Malay slave, Enrique de Malacca, are considered the first circumnavigators of the globe, since they had once sailed from the Philippines to Europe.
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Magellan,+Ferdinand   (176 words)

  
 Ferdinand Magellan: World Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com
Magellan was killed towards the end of the voyage, on the Island of Mactan in the Philippines, during a battle with the natives.
Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) was a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition that sailed around the Earth (1519-1522).
Magellan and his friend the astronomer Ruy de Falero proposed to King Charles V (of Spain) that a westward voyage around the tip of South America would take them to the Moluccas (spice-rich islands) and avoid the Portuguese (with whom they were competing fiercely).
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/m/magellan.shtml   (307 words)

  
 Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan, one of the first explorers credited with circumnavigating the globe, lived during the Renaissance, when the discovery of the "New World" shattered the reigning misconception of a flat Earth.
Magellan had no idea of the actual size of the Pacific Ocean; he assumed he could cross it in three or four days.
As the only remaining ship of Magellan's expedition, the Victoria gave conclusive proof that the world is round by sailing around the entire globe and completing her journey from Spain and back.
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/explorers/biography/6128.html   (565 words)

  
 USNews.com: Magellan didn't know how far he had to go
Magellan didn't know how far he had to go
When Magellan set off on his quest to find a passage through the Americas to the East Indies, Enrique was part of the crew, ending up back in Malacca nearly 10 years later.
Having started far to the east, he thus completed his circumnavigation before anyone else aboard--let alone Magellan, who was killed in the Philippines and never made it home.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/040223/23magellan.htm   (531 words)

  
 Magellan's Voyage Around the World Part 1: The Story Before the Voyage
Magellan went to Spain and won over that country's king, Charles, with his idea of a "secret strait" through South America.
Magellan hoped to sail west, reach the Moluccas, then return home, all the time still sailing west.
Magellan's Voyage Around the World Part 1: The Story Before the Voyage
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/worldhistory/magellan1.htm   (335 words)

  
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Magellan was born in Portugal in 1480, but launched an expedition in 1519 in the service of the King of Spain, with five small ships and 237 men.
Almost three years after they began, 18 members of the original crew returned home to Spain.
They made it to Guam, then to the Philippines, where Magellan was killed in battle in 1521.
http://www.teachnet-lab.org/miami/2003/sampedro/activity_4.htm   (113 words)

  
 Ferdinand Magellan Explorer
Murder of Magellan on the island of Mactan
ugust 1509, Magellan and a mighty Portuguese fleet consisting of 5 ships, with more than 200 soldiers, left India to reach Malacca.
1519, Magellan sets sail westward in search of the Spice Islands via a new route.
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/9000/spices/Magellan.html   (141 words)

  
 Magellan - WebCrawler Web Search Home Page
Magellan: A new view of Venus' geology and geophysics.
Magellan: A new view of Venus' geology and geophysics
Magellan recently executed an 80-day aerobraking program to lower and circularize Magellan has completed its radar mapping and gravity data collection.
http://magellan.surferspace.com   (222 words)

  
 Social Studies: History: Biographies: Explorers: Ferdinand Magellan
- A simple, illustrated account of Magellan's attempt to sail all the way around the world.
- Article from Encarta Encyclopedia tells about Magellan's life and his voyage around the world.
- National Maritime Museum fact file answers common questions about Ferdinand Magellan.
http://www.texaseducator.com/social_studies/explorers/magellan.html   (190 words)

  
 Archive Photos: Ferdinand Magellan@ HighBeam Research
September 20, 1519 Ferdinand Magellan began his voyage around the globe on this day in 1521, leading five ships from Spain across the Atlantic, then through the Straits of Magellan and into the Pacific (both of which he named).
Search for more information on HighBeam Research for.
This material is published under license from the publisher through ProQuest Information and Learning Company, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:30437565   (132 words)

  
 Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan - Who Goes There: European Exploration of the New World - Bartlett Elementary School
Great Ones: Ferdinand Magellan - Adventure Travel with iExplore
Ferdinand Magellan: World Explorer - Zoom Explorers - Enchanted Learning
http://el.hct.ac.ae/Mosaic_04/Explore/Magellan.htm   (43 words)

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