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Juan Sebastián Elcano

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The Basque master who brought the Victoria home and therefore completed the first circumnavigation, a fact routinely displaced by Magellan's name. Elcano had been among the mutineers in Patagonia and was pardoned into hard labour; after Magellan's death and the collapse of the expedition's command, he took the Victoria west from the Moluccas across the Indian Ocean, avoiding Portuguese ports he had no right to enter, rounding the Cape and running north to reach Sanlúcar de Barrameda on 6 September 1522. Eighteen men landed from a fleet of five ships and some 270 who had sailed three years earlier. The single cargo of cloves the Victoria carried is generally said to have covered the cost of the entire expedition, which is the most eloquent available statement of what spices were worth and what the voyage cost in lives to obtain them.

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  1. Story
  2. The Basque master who brought the Victoria home and therefore completed the first circumnavigation, a fact routinely displaced by Magellan's name. Elcano had been among the mutineers in Patagonia and was pardoned into hard labour; after Magellan's death and the collapse of the expedition's command, he took the Victoria west from the Moluccas across the Indian Ocean, avoiding Portuguese ports he had no right to enter, rounding the Cape and running north to reach Sanlúcar de Barrameda on 6 September 1522. Eighteen men landed from a fleet of five ships and some 270 who had sailed three years earlier. The single cargo of cloves the Victoria carried is generally said to have covered the cost of the entire expedition, which is the most eloquent available statement of what spices were worth and what the voyage cost in lives to obtain them.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães)
  5. Juan Sebastián Elcano
  6. The Victoria completes the first circumnavigation
  7. Connections
  8. Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães)
  9. The Victoria completes the first circumnavigation
  10. The Victoria completes the first circumnavigation
  11. The Manila galleon (Nao de China)
  12. Juan Sebastián Elcano
  13. The Magellan expedition sails from Sanlúcar
  14. Magellan is killed at Mactan
  15. The Victoria completes the first circumnavigation
  16. Juan Sebastián Elcano
  17. Juan Sebastián Elcano
  18. Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães)
  19. The Moluccas (Maluku Islands)
  20. Evidence
  21. 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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