Portuguese-sponsored Atlantic crossings predated and paralleled Columbus’s famous voyage

Evidence

Martin Behain (or Behaim) is described by Verlinden as a German knight, who, at least by 1486, was living on Fayal in the Azores. At this later time he is supposed to have been enlisted by the Portuguese court in an ill-fated attempt to cross the Atlantic (see text below). Behain, as it turned out, missed the boat. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1831

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims