One of the worst of the worst was a governor appointed by Ferdinand to come settle problems that didn’t exist in Santa Maria la Antigua del Darién. Darién was the first successful settlement on the mainland. If you
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To me, the story of Ferdinand II of Aragon is a story of royal succession as much as anything. His historian fans may argue, but most of the cool stuff in his life was when Isabella I was his queen. You must
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I start the epic journey of liberty with Hernando de Talavera. When the story begins, Hernando is the Archbishop of Granada, Spain, appointed to that position by the monarch Isabella II of “Fernando and Isabella”
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In the Conquest of Liberty, Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros is a principal antagonist, not because he was rotten to the core, but because his core so closely aligned with the very impediments to liberty.
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Governor Francisco de Bobadilla. Bobadilla was well respected in Ferdinand’s and Isabella’s court. His daughter Maria was an intimate with the queen. In 1499, seven years after Christopher Columbus’ first
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Rodrigo de Bastidas sailed with Christopher Columbus during his second voyage to the New World in 1493, He has been called Spain’s Noblest Conquistador due to his policy of respect, humanity, and friendship towards the native people.
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