The 1562 Map of America by Diego Gutiérrez The late fifteenth-century landfall by Christopher Columbus on the island of Guanahani, in the Bahamas, forced open the gates to a whole new world for the Spanish and other European explorers. America, as it came to be called, became the destination for numerous expeditions and adventures from 1492 onward. [eng]
West Indies Goff's historical map of the Spanish-American War in the West Indies, 1898. [eng]