A Chart of the West Indies

A Chart of the West Indies

A map of fleets and their routes in the West Indies

This map of the West Indies includes notes identifying Columbus's landing site in the New World, routes of the Spanish treasure fleets, the convoys of armed galleons and merchant ships that transported European goods to the Spanish colonies in America. The fleets returned with colonial products, especially gold and silver.

Emanuel Bowen

Library of Congress (https://www.loc.gov/item/95684859)

1720

Jessica Lee

Map