Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães)

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1. Story
2. The Portuguese captain who, sailing for Castile, commanded the expedition that first crossed the Pacific — and who did not complete the circumnavigation he is remembered for. Five ships left Sanlúcar de Barrameda on 20 September 1519 with roughly 270 men, wintered in Patagonia through a mutiny, found the strait that now bears his name in late 1520, and emerged into an ocean whose width nobody had guessed. The Pacific crossing took over three months without fresh provisions and the crew died of scurvy in numbers. Magellan was killed on 27 April 1521 at Mactan in the Philippines, in a fight he had picked in support of a local ally. His commercial premise was also wrong: the expedition was sold to Castile on the argument that the Spice Islands lay on the Castilian side of an antimeridian nobody could measure, and the argument could not be settled by the voyage because longitude could not be determined at sea.
3. Knowledge
4. The Manila galleon (Nao de China)
5. Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães)
6. Connections
7. The Manila galleon (Nao de China)
8. Juan Sebastián Elcano
9. The Magellan expedition sails from Sanlúcar
10. Magellan is killed at Mactan
11. The Victoria completes the first circumnavigation
12. Acapulco
13. Manila
14. The Atlantic wind and current system
15. Celestial navigation (latitude sailing)
16. Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães)
17. Urdaneta finds the return route across the Pacific
18. Manila is founded as the eastern terminus
19. The last Manila galleon sails
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.