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Why does Magellan get all the credit instead of Elcano?
Posted on 10/12/26 at 2:49 pm
Posted on 10/12/26 at 2:49 pm
Magellan got his arse killed in the Philippines. Elcano took over and through sheer force of will, a refusal to die, got them home. The first man to complete such a heroic feat.
Yet all we mention now is Magellan. Streets are named after him. Products, software etc bear his name. Mention Elcano and people say "who"?
How come Magellan instead of Elcano?
Yet all we mention now is Magellan. Streets are named after him. Products, software etc bear his name. Mention Elcano and people say "who"?
How come Magellan instead of Elcano?
Posted on 10/12/26 at 2:50 pm to prplhze2000
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Magellan
This post was edited on 10/12/26 at 2:52 pm
Posted on 10/12/26 at 2:53 pm to S
Posted on 10/12/26 at 2:54 pm to prplhze2000
Everyone knows the Wright bros. Few know Curtiss.
Everyone knows Henry Ford, few know Ransom Olds.
The idea is often bigger than the procedure.
Everyone knows Henry Ford, few know Ransom Olds.
The idea is often bigger than the procedure.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 2:55 pm to prplhze2000
Magellan was the one who organized the trip and who convinced King Charles fund it.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 2:55 pm to prplhze2000
Posted on 10/12/26 at 2:56 pm to prplhze2000
What about all the sailers that finished it as well?
Posted on 10/12/26 at 3:03 pm to prplhze2000
Elcano sounds like a Mexican grocery.
Magellan is majestic sounding.
Magellan is majestic sounding.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 3:04 pm to prplhze2000
Magellan had better PR people?
Posted on 10/12/26 at 3:05 pm to prplhze2000
Dude was pretty intelligent to make knock off Columbia shite and get Academy to peddle it to the baws.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 3:07 pm to hoopde
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Magellan was the one who organized the trip and who convinced King Charles fund it.
I’m also pretty sure Magellan came from some minor nobility and Elcano was further removed from a noble line (was more in line with the maritime class), so that likely also came into play.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 3:11 pm to UptownJoeBrown
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What about all the sailers that finished it as well?
I believe only 18 total completed the circumnavigation.
Magellan also deserves credit, in my opinion, for successfully putting down a serious mutiny threat prior to rounding Cape Horn.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 3:12 pm to High C
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I believe only 18 total completed the circumnavigation.
They deserve a lot of credit as well. Gotta have big balls to sign up for that crew.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 3:23 pm to UptownJoeBrown
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They deserve a lot of credit as well. Gotta have big balls to sign up for that crew.
Absolutely, but I don’t think they really understood what they were signing up for. They greatly underestimated the size of the Pacific based on what I’ve read. I’m not sure he could have assembled a crew had he told them that they would be three years at sea.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 3:25 pm to prplhze2000
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got his arse killed
Kurt Cobain effect
Posted on 10/12/26 at 4:36 pm to prplhze2000
Magellan is better priced and fits better. Not all of us can afford Elcano.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 5:00 pm to prplhze2000
You get more love when you die for your cause
Posted on 10/12/26 at 5:18 pm to prplhze2000
Did you read Elcano y el País Vasco: Cómo se hizo posible la primera vuelta al mundo?
Posted on 10/12/26 at 6:10 pm to prplhze2000
Everyone remembers the mountain climbers, no one remembers the sherpas
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