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Arredondo argued Christopher Columbus was first discoverer
Source: Historical proof of the right of the Catholic King to the territory held to-day by the British King under the name of New Georgia #558
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INTRODUCTION It is an undeniable fact that the New World was made known in the year 1492 by Don Christopher Columbus, who cannot be robbed of the glory of being first discoverer, under the protection, auspices, and patents, and at the expense of the Catholic Sovereigns, Don Fernando and Dona Isabel, of glorious memory; and that the voyages of the Norwegians, Danes, English, Swedes, Hollanders, Bretons and others were made after the Spaniards had spread the news of the discovery of the Western Indies. This basic fact should prove once and for all that all these domains legally belong to the Catholic King, for the same reasons which some Englishmen put forth in support of their claim to the Continent of Florida as far as 29°.
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