Christopher Columbus Quotes
I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.
Columbus, Christopher. Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America. Translated by Samuel Kettell, Thomas B. Wait and Son, 1827, p. 43.
While some of the Indian agents were dishonest and stole as much as they could, others like Street, meant well but had no experience or preparation for the job.
He was part of the Congressional Delegation that had been appointed to welcome the newly elected first President George Washington to New York City, then the first capitol of the nation. The delegation met Washington on the New Jersey shore of the Hudson River and escorted him with a large flotilla of official and unofficial boats across the Hudson River to the Manhattan shoreline where this huge crowd had gathered. The tremendous crowd worried some of the Congress who thought there might be too much respect and obedience to the President—that he might be viewed as a monarch or worse, view himself as one. The authority and respect paid to the president was in political dispute for the first three presidential terms until Thomas Jefferson defeated John Adams and the Federalists.
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions, sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, were the first European contact with the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.
