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Sevilla, beginning and end of the first round the world.
Magellan organized a traveling route to the west, thinking that if the islands were beyond India should not be too far from the new American territories.
The expedition consisted of five ships with 250 men on board with Magellan in command of the fleet sailed in August 1519
After passing the Canaries...
went to South America, traveling further south in what is now Brazil and then were Portuguese possessions in America
During the trip, while seeking a passage to the Pacific Ocean were caught the winter causing a riot that resulted...
in the loss of two of the five ships.
At the end of the winter continued south to find the passage is still called the Strait of Magellan
Once entered into the ocean to which they will appoint as Pacific Magellan began a voyage that was expected to cut westward toward Asia
Magellan believed to pass from America to Asia was a small sea but in fact it was the largest of the oceans...
and the nearest land was several thousand kilometers
Magellan's expedition moves for three months by the Pacific Ocean without ever seeing land and almost without food.
A causa de la falta de alimentos frescos muchos marineros enfermaron de escorbuto.
The expedition now in a desperate state to reach the island of Guam in January 1521 and then recommence their journey to Asia.
Magellan will be killed in the Philippines amid a skirmish with some natives
Not going to get, thus completing the circumnavigation of the world, but would travel and the more unknown
and showing that its plan and Columbus was able to travel to the east by the west.