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La Navidad
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Oct 16, 2026
Dean BowenHOST
He's building a colony.
Dean BowenHOST
And when he comes back to the fort, which they named La Vinad, meaning the nativity, Navidad, I'm sorry, La Navidad, it was empty.
Dean BowenHOST
You know what he did find? He found the bones of his men.
Dean BowenHOST
When he asked the chief about it, the chief of the Taino tribe, the chief was like, yeah, the Caribs came, the Cannibs came, and they attacked your men and they ate them.
Ashe in AmericaHOST
It ran aground off Hispaniola on Christmas 1492.
Ashe in AmericaHOST
The crew used its timbers to build a fort, La Navidad.
Jackie EspadaHOST
So it never made it back.
Ashe in AmericaHOST
Never made it back.
speaker_2NARRATOR
He wrote in his journal, "I have ordered a tower and fortress to be constructed and large cellar, not because I believe there is any necessity on the account of the natives.
speaker_2NARRATOR
I am certain the people I have with me could subjugate all this island, as the population are naked and without arms and very cowardly." Altogether, 36 men stayed back to inhabit the first European settlement of the New World, named La Navidad.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The decision was swayed by conversations from a local tribe who said their island was full of gold.
speaker_2NARRATOR
So Columbus went on collecting gold, unique plants and animals, and took some Taino captives.
speaker_2NARRATOR
According to Columbus, his men began to quarrel among themselves, hoarding as much gold and women as they could.
speaker_2NARRATOR
11 of the men left the settlement for the gold mines, but here a powerful chief who had dominion over the mines killed them all.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The chief marched to La Navidad, setting fire to the houses and forcing the Spanish to a watery grave.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The rest were killed on the shore.
Dean BowenHOST
So this is a group, this is another tribe that Columbus encountered.
Dean BowenHOST
So after his first voyage, he gets there, he meets the Tanos, the Tanos tell him about the the Cannibs and he's making his way back to Spain but one of his ships run aground and he's got to leave it behind and so he leaves behind 40 men and this is what would be on the island of Haiti and so the 40 men built a settlement they built a fort that they called La Navidad which is the nativity And so Columbus says, can you 40 stay here? I'm going to go back to Spain.
Dean BowenHOST
I'm going to bring you back some supplies.
Dean BowenHOST
You know, just stay here and wait for me.
Kerry ByrneGUEST
He entered a very hostile world, okay? And one thing that's been erased from it is that, uh, Columbus left behind a, a, a settlement.
Kerry ByrneGUEST
It was called La Navidad.
Kerry ByrneGUEST
Like, uh, we know he went off, he reached Navidad, right? In, in the-
Tom ShattuckHOST
Hmm.
Tom ShattuckHOST
Yeah
Dave BowmanHOST
The expedition would then continue on to Cuba, Hispaniola, and the Santa María ran aground on Christmas Day.
Dave BowmanHOST
Columbus established the fort at La Navidad.
Dave BowmanHOST
It's important to note that on this first voyage, he never actually reached North America.
Dave BowmanHOST
It's not what happened.
Mark GagnonHOST
The first European foothold in this part of the world was built literally out of a broken Spanish ship and the kindness of the Taino people.
Mark GagnonHOST
Columbus took the salvaged wood and built a little fort, and he named it La Navidad, literally Christmas, after the night that it all began.
Mark GagnonHOST
He left 39 men behind, and he basically told them to hunt for gold, promised that he was gonna come back, and at this point, he sailed home to Spain to announce his triumph.
Mark GagnonHOST
Now, I just wanna pause for a moment here because you're gonna get this bit told to you in different ways depending on who you listen to.
Mark GagnonHOST
La Navidad was an early Spanish fort.
Mark GagnonHOST
It was not the first European settlement in the Americas.
Mark GagnonHOST
The Vikings beat them there by, like, 500 years just up in, like, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Mark GagnonHOST
Like, basically like, hey, we sent guys up to the moon and this is what they found.