On the second expedition, Columbus leaves with hisa bigger crew than he had last time. The crew was so large that it is known to be the Grand Fleet. The Grand Fleet was preoccupied with a large group of 1,500 colonists. They were acquired with seventeen ships for travel. Columbus sailed from Cádiz on September 1493 on his way towards the New World.
A new island known to be Dominica was spotted alongside with Guadeloupe around the crack of dawn. Later on, the ships arrive in Hispaniola. As soon as when they get there, Columbus yet finds La Navidad, a settlement he had with his men from the last voyage, destroyed by the aboriginal natives.
Columbus decides to establish a new colony to replace the one destroyed and names it La Isabela. La Isabela is now known as one of the first European colonization’s nowadays.
Columbus went sailing around the southern coast waters of Cuba, and afterward: Jamaica. After spending a couple of day in Jamaica, Columbus went and returned to Cuba.
Columbus returns to La Isabela, Hispaniola, and find the colonists, who were only interested in getting some gold, disorderly. Somehow outraged, Columbus attempts to try and enforce stern castigation. This led to the crew eventually seizing vessels and returning back to Spain full of complaints that went against Columbus’s management. Anyways, Columbus left his brother, Bartholomew, to take charge and watch over Hispaniola so that the colony would be protected and watched carefully.
This voyage comes to an end on October 3rd, 1496.