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Magellan is killed at Mactan

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Magellan died in a shore fight on the island of Mactan in the central Philippines, having intervened on behalf of a local ruler who had accepted baptism against a neighbouring chief who had not. The expedition had by then crossed the Pacific — over three months without fresh provisions, with heavy losses to scurvy — and had established the ocean's true and previously unimagined width. Command of what remained of the fleet passed through several hands before Elcano.

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  1. Story
  2. Magellan died in a shore fight on the island of Mactan in the central Philippines, having intervened on behalf of a local ruler who had accepted baptism against a neighbouring chief who had not. The expedition had by then crossed the Pacific — over three months without fresh provisions, with heavy losses to scurvy — and had established the ocean's true and previously unimagined width. Command of what remained of the fleet passed through several hands before Elcano.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães)
  5. Magellan is killed at Mactan
  6. Connections
  7. Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães)
  8. The Manila galleon (Nao de China)
  9. Juan Sebastián Elcano
  10. The Magellan expedition sails from Sanlúcar
  11. Magellan is killed at Mactan
  12. The Victoria completes the first circumnavigation
  13. Evidence
  14. The principal contemporary narrative of the 1519–1522 circumnavigation: the departure, the strait, the Pacific crossing, Magellan's death at Mactan and the Victoria's return. V55 verification basis: NOT consulted in this session. Dates and the survivor count attributed to it in this pack are from the author's knowledge of the standard editions and require checking. Pigafetta is a partisan witness, favourable to Magellan and hostile to Elcano, which a reader should weigh.
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