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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 — 784 ratings — published 1521 — 251 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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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
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“Todas las veces que a vuestra santa majestad he escrito, he dicho a vuestra alteza el aparejo que hay en algunos de los naturales de estas partes para convertirse a nuestra santa fe católica y ser cristianos y he enviado a suplicar a vuestra cesárea majestad, para ello, mandase proveer de personas religiosas de buena vida y ejemplo (...) Y pues que tanto en esto va y la principal intención de vuestra majestad es y deber ser que estas gentes se conviertan y los que acá en su real nombre residimos la debemos seguir y como cristianos tener de ellos especial cuidado, (...) trabajo y trabajaré que los reinos y señoríos de vuestra majestad por estas partes se ensanchen y su real fama y gran poder entre estas gentes se publique, que así deseo y trabajaré con el ánima para que vuestra alteza en ellas mande sembrar nuestra santa fe. Porque por ello merezco la bienaventuranza de la vida perpetua.”
― Hernán Cortés, Cartas de relación
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“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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