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Maritime History Conference dedicated to this unique feat by Mr. José Cánovas García, Colonel of the Marine Corps and Secretary of the admiral Director of the Institute of Naval History and Culture, at the Luis Manzanares Institute of Torre Pacheco, on the occasion of the V Centenary of the First Round the World.
This year marks the 500th anniversary of Seville's departure of five nasos with more than 230 men, in search of a new route through the West to Specería.
He left Servilla on August 10, 1519 (from Sanlúcar on September 20), and returned to the same port three years later, after always sailing west, across the Atlantic, the Strait of Magellan, the Pacific, the Indian and the Atlantic again.
This meant a three-year trip, at the end of which a single nao and only eighteen men returned to Spain.
The rest had died in the attempt, either by action of justice, or in combat with the natives, or victims of the hardness of the trip, or had been taken prisoner by the Portuguese authorities or had deserted.
The Magellan-Elcano expedition was thus completed, the latter being the first to navigate the entire roundness of the Earth.
Among the many events scheduled this year 2019, from the Institute of Naval History and Culture, a Maritime History Conference dedicated to this unique feat, in which the students of the IES Luis Manzanares have participated, in an activity organized by The educational center.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco
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