Later Years
When Columbus came back from Spain during his second voyage, on November 27, 1493 he expected to see a bustling village. When he landed, however, he saw eleven corpses of his men on the beach and discovered that La Navidad had been destroyed. He was told by nearby Taínos that the settlers had mistreated the natives, who retaliated by killing all of them. Other sources say there was insubordination within the colonists, which led to their deaths.
Columbus decided to build a settlement farther east in the present day Dominican Republic and named it La Isabela after Queen Isabella.
Read more about this topic: La Navidad
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