Hurricanes (Part 1)-Consequential Historic Storms
Channel: Sean Anderson
Date: 2021-03-22

Here we discuss several significant pre-1900 hurricanes whose consequences played out well beyond the immediately impacts people and areas:

1) Kublai Khan’s failed, typhoon-thwarted Mongol invasions of Japan in 1274 and 1281
2) the 1502 Hurricane that struck Hispaniola while Columbus sought refuge
3) Great Hurricane of 1780 that helped the Americans defeat the British at Yorktown
4) San Ciríaco Hurricane of 1899 in Puerto Rico
5) Galveston Hurricane of 1900