Salvete Omnes,
today, as every Monday close to October 12, we celebrate the national holiday known as Columbus Day to commemorate the day when the 12th of October but in 1492 the small Spanish armada, of three ships, commanded by the royal admiral Colon (Columbus) having crossed the Atlantic landed their boats in the Bahama Islands.
Technically or more precisely, the horses arrived in the Americas a year later, during the second voyage of Columbus, in December 1493.
Long live the Spanish horses of the Americas and all other American horses that came after 1493.
For the indigenous peoples of the Americas the Age of Conquista (Conquest) has begun an continues to this day.. with the African and Eurasian diseases, alcoholism, death, destruction and loss of culture, language and identity. One could say that they received horses, Christianity, Western civilisational Progress, and the final end to their cannibalism - all in return for their Americas.
Like the cowering woman before Columbus in the sculpture below
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Valete
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