Hernán Cortés

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Hernán Cortés


Born
Medellín , Spain
Died
November 12, 1547


Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca (1485–1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

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Letters from Mexico

3.67 avg rating — 738 ratings — published 1521 — 250 editions
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Carta Segunda de Relacion

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La gran Tenochtitlan

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Relación de 1520

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Cómo conquisté a los Aztecas

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Dopisy: Druhý a třetí dopis...

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Cartas de relación. Selecci...

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Letters of Cortés to Empero...

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Crónicas

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Historia de Méjico

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“I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.”
Hernán Cortés

“If the heathen are no longer brought by compulsion into the light, we make them pay a heavy indemnity for their privilege of sitting in darkness, and, whenever their opposition to the dissemination of Christian teaching amongst them emerges from quiescence into activity, a warship is ready to bombard their coasts while troops are at hand to annex a province.”
Hernán Cortés, Five Letters of Cortes to the Emperor: 1519 -1526

“hypocrisy which is a smug vice of cowards”
Hernán Cortés, Five Letters of Cortes to the Emperor: 1519 -1526