The Influence Of Christopher Columbus: A Look At The Siege Of Columbus

Columbus had been present at the siege of Granada in January 1492. He was in fact riding back from it to La Rábida when he was recalled to court and the vital royal audience. Granada 's fall encouraged Spanish Christians to believe that they might indeed triumph over Islam, albeit chiefly, perhaps, by the back way round the globe. In the letter that prefaces his journal of the first voyage, the admiral vividly evokes his own hopes and binds them all together with the conquest of the infidel, the victory of Christianity, and the westward route to discovery and Christian