Cover of Columbus's outpost among the Taínos

Columbus's outpost among the Taínos

Spain and America at La Isabela, 1493-1498

by Jose Maria Cruxent, Kathleen Deagan, Kathleen A. Deagan

2002 294 pages eng

"In 1493 Christopher Columbus led a fleet of seventeen ships and more than twelve hundred men to found a royal trading colony in America. Columbus had high hopes for his settlement, which he named La Isabela after the queen of Spain, but just five years later it was in ruins. It remains important, h…

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