Columbus and the Crusaders

In 14 hundred 92, columbus sails his ass across the ocean blue in three ships. The nina and the pinta are assembled last minute by a spanish town that had like pissed off the king and queen and owed them a bunch of money. Two thirds of the fleet was built at the last minute as kind of a bribe. And the route he picks is still, to this day, basically the best sail route between europe and the caribbean.