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John Cabot   /dʒɑn kˈæbət/   Listen
John Cabot

noun
1.
Italian explorer who led the English expedition in 1497 that discovered the mainland of North America and explored the coast from Nova Scotia to Newfoundland (ca. 1450-1498).  Synonyms: Cabot, Giovanni Cabato.






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"John Cabot" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mifflin and Company for permission to use, out of the third volume of Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America, the late Dr. Charles Deane's translation, revised by Professor Bennet H. Nash, of the second letter of Raimondo de Soncino respecting John Cabot's expedition; and to George Philip and Son, Limited, of London, for permission to use the map in Markham's Life of Christopher Columbus as the basis for the map in the present volume, showing the routes of ...
— The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 • Various

... first, then, that travel is a study of history at the spot where the event took place. The history of a nation is a record of its great men. You tell a faithful story of Columbus, John Cabot, and Henry Hudson; of Winthrop, John Smith, and Melendez; of General Wolfe, General Washington, Patrick Henry, and Franklin; of Jefferson, Adams, Jackson, and Webster; of Abraham Lincoln, Wendell Phillips, John Brown, and General Grant; of John Sherman, Grover ...
— Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes • J. M. Judy



Words linked to "John Cabot" :   Cabot, Giovanni Cabato, navigator



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