John Cabot
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In 1497, an Italian sea captain, sailing under the English flag,
reached the coast of North America. may have been the first
European to set foot on this conttnent after the viking explorer, Leif
Erickson, who had landed there 5 centuries before. Joh Cabot's became the
basis for the English clai ....
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.... had already sent Columbus, and Portugal had plans
for a voyage to Asia around the southern tip of Africa. Joh Cabot then
went to England where he recieved the financing from a group of merchants
and the English King, Henry VII.
John Cabot sailed from Bristol, late in May 1497, with a crew of 18,
on a small ship named "The Matthew." On June 24th, he landed somewhere on
the coast of North America, probably New Foundland or Cape Brenton Island,
in what is now know as Canada. John Cabot wa ....
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