#5 The Admiral of the Ocean Sea Part 3
The History of the Americans
Jack Henneman
4.9 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This is our third episode on Christopher Columbus, which looks at his voyage west from the morning of his departure from Spain, his stop in the Canaries, the crossing of the Atlantic ahead of the fine easterly trade winds that blow at that latitude, ending with the First Contact on an island in the Bahamas. Along the way we learn that but for a flock of birds, the Spanish might not have colonized the western hemisphere.
Recorded January 21, 2021, Austin, Texas.
I’ve got a new microphone, and am getting a bit more adept at mixing, so here’s to hoping the production values improve, in no doubt fits and starts, as we work our way along through history.
The map of the Atlantic islands will again be useful, so here it is:
Here’s a high level map of the First Voyage which will be useful for the next couple of episodes.
This is a more granular map that will become useful at the end of this episode and during the next episode.
Selected references for this episode
Samuel Eliot Morison, The Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your host, Jack Heneman, and this fifth episode is The Admiral of the Ocean |
| 0:14.5 | Sea, part three. |
| 0:17.2 | Before we move to the history part, I thought it would be useful to take stock. |
| 0:21.8 | As of the recording of this episode during the third week of January 2021, I've uploaded |
| 0:29.3 | five episodes of the podcast and total only a few friends and family about it. |
| 0:35.5 | Obviously, I'm still very much learning how to record, edit, |
| 0:40.3 | find the best location to keep noise down, and so forth. And I do hope this episode is an |
| 0:46.2 | improvement in that respect on the last couple. Even so, there have been 74 downloads, |
| 0:52.7 | and only five were mine. We've had multiple downloads |
| 0:56.2 | from places where I've not alerted anybody, including a loyal listener in France and another |
| 1:01.8 | in Washington State. So obviously very early going, but since I thought it would be something |
| 1:08.0 | to get even a thousand downloads in the first six months, |
| 1:17.3 | it seems we're off to a good start. In any case, thank you, and please give us a good rating in iTunes or the podcatcher of your choice. Now for the history part. The last time we talked about |
| 1:25.5 | how Christopher Columbus pitched his proposal for a westbound expedition |
| 1:30.1 | to Asia to the crowned heads of Europe, finally winning backing from the dual sovereigns |
| 1:35.9 | of Spain, Isabella and Ferdinand, with a decided emphasis on Isabella. All that has come before has led us to today's episode, |
| 1:47.1 | in which Columbus and his three famous ships sail across the Atlantic and make the first |
| 1:53.4 | sustained contact between the eastern and western hemispheres since the Bering Land Bridge |
| 1:59.2 | disappeared. |
| 2:02.5 | So let's get to it. |
| 2:15.0 | On August 3rd, 1492, a bit before dawn, Columbus and his three famous ships set sail for the first stop in their voyage, the Canaries. |
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