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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
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Five Letters of Cortes to the Emperor: 1519 -1526 Five Letters of Cortes to the Emperor: 1519 -1526 by Hernán Cortés
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