Articles related to "Markland"Christopher Columbus is generally credited with discovering the Americas in 1492. There is reliable evidence to indicate the presence of Europeans in Canada much earlier.
A short study of the wealthy army volunteer who, by building a mansion on the banks of the Bourne, created what was to become a large south coast seaside resort.
Four centuries before Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic from Spain, Leif Ericsson (c. 970-1020), a Nordic explorer, landed on the shores of North America.
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