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When the ship Victoria appeared with tattered sails in Sanlúcar de Barrameda on September 6, 1522, with split masts and chipped hull, it looked like a ghost ship. On board were only 18 ragged and starving sailors, their bodies covered in sores. The only survivors of the 241 men who had left that same port three years earlier. One of them was Juan Sebastián Elcano, captain of that dilapidated ship that had just completed the first circumnavigation of the world in history. Before leaving his cabin, he wrote to King Carlos I to inform him of his arrival and the details of that trip that historians compare to the conquest… See More
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