Five Ships, 270 Men, and a Voyage Nobody Had Survived
On September 20, 1519, Ferdinand Magellan sailed from Spain with five ships and about 270 men on the voyage that would become the first circumnavigation of the Earth.
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The Ship That Sailed Around the World
On September 6, 1522, a rotting carrack called the Victoria limped into a Spanish harbor with 18 starving men aboard, completing the first voyage around the world.
Home at Last: The Corps of Discovery Returns
On September 23, 1806, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark sailed into St. Louis, completing the first recorded overland journey from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean and back.