Jean Cousin (navigator) French Explorer
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Jean Cousin (navigator) is a French Explorer.
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Jean Cousin, also Jehan Cousin, was a 15th-century navigator from Normandy, France who has been said to have discovered the New World in 1488, four years before Christopher Columbus, when he landed in Brazil around the mouth of the Amazon. One of his captains was named Martín Alonso Pinzón, who left Cousin in a dispute after their return to Dieppe, and who is claimed to have left for Spain from where he advised Columbus on his westward sail. Pinzon is known to have displayed a remarkable confidence in guiding Columbus in his discovery of the New World. No indisputable written records remain, however, to support Cousin's claim to discovery.
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