Was Magellan Worth Defending? Many think of Magellan as the great leader of the first voyage to circumnavigate the world, but what they really don’t know is many people had their own opinions on him. Some people may ask himself the question was magellan worth defending? As you may know many have different answers to this question, but my only answer to this is magellan was not worth defending. My main reasons to back up my answer is the following. Magellan was a cruel, had a laborious personality, and wasn’t responsible. Starting off, Magellan was a tyrannical leader. He had many reasonable reasons to start attacking people. A quintessential example is he burned down a village because he thought God had a different purpose for him. Furthermore,