Digital Delights for Learners

Magellens first sea voyage was in 1505, they sent him to Portugel to help another explorer install the Portugese viceroy. Magellen also had his first battle in 1509 when one of the kings rejected of paying tribute to the new viceroy. He lost the viceroy and left without permission, he was accused with illegally leaving with the Moors. Magellen lost all offers of employment from the Portugese after 1514. Magellen had to avoid Portugese since he was sailing for Spain. They moved down the coast of South America. The weather got worse so they stayed in Patagoina for the winter. When the weather calmed down in spring Magellen sent his explorers through the Pacific Ocean, in May his ship was wrecked. Ferdinand Magellen was the first to cross the Pacific. He did not complete the voyage he was killed in the Battle of Mactan in the Phillippines.

John Smith was an English explorer, and one of the founders of Jamestown, Virgina.  John Smith was one of the 105 settlers who sailed from England in1606 and landed in Virgina in1607. He started to settle with France who were fighting with the Dutch independence from Spain. Two years later he set of to the Mediterranean Sea, in 1600 he joined Austrian force to fight with the Turks in the ‘long war’. He was promoted to Captain while fighting in Hungary.   He fought in Transylvania 2 years later and was wounded in his battle. In December 1607, He was accidently injured by a gunpowder burn and had to return to England for treatment in 1609, and was never to return to Virgina. After his treatment he returned to the new world and spent the rest of his life writing and died in 1631 at the age of 51.

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