It was "c. Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain" who <span>funded Christopher Columbus's voyages, since all of the other people he want to thought that this mission would be a waste of money. </span>
On April 24,1915, the Ottoman government arrests some 235 to 270 Armenian intellectuals and cultural leaders in Constantinople,deports them to a prison in the interior, where many of them were tortured and killed. This day is often referred to as the "Red Sunday". The arrested Armenian intellectuals and cultural leaders were deported to holding centers near Ankara. Overall the total estimated Armenians arrested were nearly 2345. The Tehcir Law passed on 29th of May in the year 1915 the people that were detained were allowed to be relocated within the Ottoman Empire.
They served with the Confederacy because they believed that the Confederacy fought the big central government that was being imposed by the Union and they wanted to fight this so as to keep sovereignty over their own land. They believed that the Union government didn't care about them while the Confederacy would give them room to breathe.
