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This refurbished episode of History Daily originally aired on August 3, 2022.

It's early morning on August 3, 1492.

Off the southern coast of Spain, a convoy of three ships carved through the sparkling

waters of the Gulf of Cádiz, heading south.

aboard the biggest ship, the stout, triple-masted Santa Maria, 41-year-old Christopher Columbus

crosses the deck.

He stops at the edge of his ship and stares out across the waves.

He's the admiral of this small, but important fleet.

Daring out ahead is the Pinta, while off to port, keeping pace with the Santa Maria, is

the smallest of the three ships, the Niña.

In the distance beyond, Columbus can still make out the Spanish coast, a brown smudge

of Earth low on the horizon.

But soon Columbus knows the last trace of Europe will disappear in his wake.

But if all goes well, Columbus and his crew will return here in a few months' time, laden

with treasures.

If fortune is less kind, this may be the last time any of them see dry land.

Nobody has attempted a journey like this before.

Columbus and his crew know full well the dangers that lie ahead.

For now though, Columbus feels certain that God is with him and his crew.

Columbus beings as a strong gust of wind fills the sails of his ship and sprays his hair

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