September 6, 1522
The Victoria Comes Home Alone
The return of the Victoria, first circumnavigation of the Earth, on September 6, 1522
On September 6, 1522, the Victoria slipped into Sanlúcar with a cargo of spices, a battered hull, and only eighteen men left from the sixty who had sailed from the Moluccas. How did a voyage meant to reach the Spice Islands become the first documented circumnavigation of Earth—and why did the man who planned it die before anyone knew it had succeeded?
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