The Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange:
Christopher Columbus
Third Expedition
After two years, it was decided to have a third voyage across the ocean. In 1498, Columbus was voluntarily forced to transport convicts as colonists. This is because of the immoral reports on the conditions in Hispaniola. Also, because the “innovation” of the New World was wearing off.
For some time, Columbus went sailing around the mouth of Orinoco River and seemed to have found a new continent. Columbus fought the impulse to try and explore the continent and went back to Hispaniola to regulate that he saw a new continent/colony.
In 1500, an autonomous governor had arrived, sent by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand due to the anonymous complaints about the inadequate conditions in the colony. They sent Columbus back to Spain in chains because of the convicts he illegally traveled across the waters. Columbus immediately lost all of his authority. The admiral immediately unconstrained. This voyage eventually come to an end.
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
Isabella, I was the Queen of Castille. She was married to King Ferdinand II of Aragon. Their marriage became the basis for the political amalgamation of Spain. She lived from April 22nd, 1451 to November 26th, 1504.
Ferdinand II, which is Catholic, was King of Sicily from 1468 and King of Aragon from 1479 until his death. He lived from March 10th, 1452 to January 23rd, 1516.
Picture of Columbus being sent home to Spain in chains.
The royal commissioner who was sent by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella was named, Francisco de Bobadilla. He was the one who sent Columbus and his brothers home in chains. First he had stripped Columbus and his brothers’ governing authority and sent them back to Spain.
In Spain Columbus easily got himself and his brothers out of prison. Although they did only spend and few weeks in prison, consequences still remained. Columbus still had no governing authority over anything back in the New World.