Monday, October 14, 2013

"I could conquer the whole of them with fifty men, and govern them as I pleased."

“I could conquer the whole of them with fifty men, and govern them as I pleased.”



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Christopher Columbus on the local inhabitants, from his journal 14 October 1492 .


Internet History Sourcebooks Project


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