USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In actual fact, Columbus did not discover North America. He was the first European to sight the Bahamas archipelago and then the island later named Hispaniola, now split into Haiti and the Dominican Republic. On his subsequent voyages he went farther south, to Central and South America.

Detailed explanation-2: -On his second voyage in 1493, he sailed with seventeen ships and about 1200 men, arriving in Hispaniola in late November to find the fort of La Navidad destroyed with no survivors. Near its ruins, on the northern coast of the present-day Dominican Republic, he founded the short-lived town of Isabella.

Detailed explanation-3: -ON his first voyage to the American Indies, shimmering on the western horizon, Christopher Columbus discovered a Caribbean island which he called Hispaniola, meaning “Little Spain.” He set foot on what is now Haiti on December 6, 1492, shortly after his first landfall at Watling Island in the Bahamas.

Detailed explanation-4: -On October 12, the expedition reached land, probably Watling Island in the Bahamas. Later that month, Columbus sighted Cuba, which he thought was mainland China, and in December the expedition landed on Hispaniola, which Columbus thought might be Japan.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Dominican Republic was explored and colonized by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage in 1492. He named it “La Hispaniola”, and his son, Diego, was its first governor.