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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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