Cabot set a more northerly route then Columbus, settling into higher Atlantic currents. Four and a half weeks later he sighted land. On St. John's Day -- June 24, 1497 Cabot set into a bay and ...

Cristoforo Colombo and Giovanni Caboto left Genoa separately as young men, went on to organize a few entrepreneurial sailing trips, and ended their lives as Christopher Columbus and John Cabot ...