He's not John Paul Jones, but Samuel Eliot Morison won a Pulitzer Prize for a biography titled afterthe rank this man was granted in the Capitulations of Santa Fe.
He's not John Paul Jones, but Samuel Eliot Morison won a Pulitzer Prize for a biography titled afterthe rank this man was granted in the Capitulations of Santa Fe. Washington Irving's biography of thisnon-George Washington man inspired three Emanuel Leutze paintings and popularized or inventedmany of the myths about him. Mark Twain based Hank Morgan's eclipse trick on one of the feats ofthis man. He carried on a tense relationship with his underlings, the (*) Pinzon brothers. Francisco deBobadilla relieved this man of the governorship of the Indes and sent him back to Spain in chains. Hewas granted the title Admiral of the Ocean Sea after his first voyage. The 1893 Chicago World's Fair washeld to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of this man's greatest accomplishment. For 10points, name this man who sailed on the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria in 1492.
He's not John Paul Jones, but Samuel Eliot Morison won a Pulitzer Prize for a biography titled afterthe rank this man was granted in the Capitulations of Santa Fe.
Christopher Columbus [or Cristobal Colon]