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1. Miguel Ballester a Catalan from Tarragona

1.1 1454: Ballester and Columbus provoke a rebellion between peasants and landowners on the Island of Majorca.

1.2 1470: Miguel and Simon Ballester in Genoa and Savona with the Colombo family of Cuneo.

2. COLOM-COLOMBO-COLÓN

2.1 False and adulterated Italian documents.

2.2 “TERRA RUBRA” on the Ligurian Coast of Catalan-Aragonese Sardinia

3. The origin of the Columbian Venture.

4. A privateer named Columbus

5.1476-1484: The Discovery of The Indies was thanks to Columbus’ experiences in Portugal

6. Columbus’ ties with Portugal

7. The “Mina de Oro” (gold mine) and sugar cane

8. A quick look back at history so as to be better able to understand this story.

8.1 Catalonia under the Crown of Aragon.

8.2 The marriage of Isabel of Castile to Ferdinand of Aragon. The Archbishopric of Tarragona was the see at which the dispensation for the legitimate marriage of the Catholic Monarchs was negotiated.

9. 1493: The Catalans with Columbus on the Island of La Española.

9.1 Columbus’ stay in Tarragona on returning from his voyage of discovery and before being received by the Catholic Monarchs.

9.2 An error in History.

9.3 Columbus’ itinerary by the Royal Highway from Seville to Cordoba and Murcia and then north by coastal road to his meeting in Barcelona with the Catholic Monarchs.

9.4 The Tarragona Manuscript or Christopher Columbus’ Copy Book.

9.5 A Crucial meeting.

10. Columbus’ second voyage.

10.1 1496-98 ‘Coup d’etat’ in Santo Domingo.

10.2 Columbus, an expert merchant sailor.

10.3 Sugar cane takes root in The Caribbean.

10.4 Miguel Ballester, “the first man to produce sugar”.

10.5 The last three decades of his life.

10.6 From The Mediterranean to The Caribbean Sea.