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Conquistador
| Author | : Buddy Levy |
| Publisher | : Bantam |
| Total Pages | : 458 |
| Release | : 2009-07-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0553384716 |
In this astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller, acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures perhaps unequaled to this day. It was a moment unique in human history, the face-to-face meeting between two men from civilizations a world apart. In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of Mexico, determined not only to expand the Spanish empire but to convert the natives to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. That he saw nothing paradoxical in carrying out his intentions by virtually annihilating a proud and accomplished native people is one of the most remarkable and tragic aspects of this unforgettable story. In Tenochtitlán Cortés met his Aztec counterpart, Montezuma: king, divinity, commander of the most powerful military machine in the Americas and ruler of a city whose splendor equaled anything in Europe. Yet in less than two years, Cortés defeated the entire Aztec nation in one of the most astounding battles ever waged. The story of a lost kingdom, a relentless conqueror, and a doomed warrior, Conquistador is history at its most riveting.
Hernando Cortés
| Author | : John Paul Zronik |
| Publisher | : Crabtree Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780778724346 |
Learn about the Spanish conqueror's invasion of Mexico.
Hernando Cortés
| Author | : Frederick A. Ober |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 2022-05-09 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781647645137 |
The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was perhaps one of the greatest turning points in North American history. This book relates the full story of how the Spanish adventurer Hernando Cortés and his small group overthrew the Aztec Empire and laid the foundation for the present-day nation of Mexico. It tells of how Cortés found his way to the New World, and, once there, drew together an alliance of a few hundred Spaniards and around 7,000 local Indian allies-all of those who had suffered at the hands of the Aztecs for countless years and who leaped at the chance to exact revenge upon their neighbors. After an initially peaceful parley into the Aztec capital-in search of gold and other riches-violence erupted and the Spaniards were nearly wiped out and forced to retreat. Outside the city, Cortés assembled a new army, consisting of 2,000 Spaniards and around 200,000 Indian allies, and started a general assault on the Aztec capital which saw Spanish boats built in situ and assembled on Lake Tezcuco-the waterway surrounding the magnificent island city. The fierce three-month-long siege ended in utter defeat for the Aztecs, and the city was nearly razed and rebuilt as the present-day metropolis of Mexico City. This exciting, dramatic, and horrendously bloody story reveals all the horror of the time, and Ober's book remains one of the most readable narratives of this earth-shaking military campaign ever written. Contents I. In Spain and Hispaniola 1485-1511 II. With Velasquez in Cuba 1511-1518 III. Cortés Sets Out for Mexico 1519 IV. The Great Battle of Tabasco 1519 V. In the Plumed Serpent's Land 1519 VI. An Alliance with the Totonacs 1519 VII. Cortés Destroys his Fleet 1519 VIII. Encounters with the Tlascalans 1519 IX. A Massacre in the Holy City 1519 X. In the City of Mexico 1519 XI. At Montezuma's Court 1519 XII. Montezuma a Prisoner 1519-1520 XIII. An Invasion by Narvaez 1520 XIV. The Spaniards Meet with Disaster 1520 XV. The Midnight Retreat from Mexico 1520 XVI. Siege of the Aztec Capital 1521 XVII. Montezuma's City Destroyed 1521 XVIII. The Colonization of Mexico 1521 XIX. A Perilous Expedition 1524-1526 XX. Last Voyages and Last Days
When Montezuma Met Cortés
| Author | : Matthew Restall |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 442 |
| Release | : 2018-01-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0062427288 |
A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortés that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European colonization of the mainland of the Americas—has long been the symbol of Cortés’s bold and brilliant military genius. Montezuma, on the other hand, is remembered as a coward who gave away a vast empire and touched off a wave of colonial invasions across the hemisphere. But is this really what happened? In a departure from traditional tellings, When Montezuma Met Cortés uses “the Meeting”—as Restall dubs their first encounter—as the entry point into a comprehensive reevaluation of both Cortés and Montezuma. Drawing on rare primary sources and overlooked accounts by conquistadors and Aztecs alike, Restall explores Cortés’s and Montezuma’s posthumous reputations, their achievements and failures, and the worlds in which they lived—leading, step by step, to a dramatic inversion of the old story. As Restall takes us through this sweeping, revisionist account of a pivotal moment in modern civilization, he calls into question our view of the history of the Americas, and, indeed, of history itself.
Letters from Mexico
| Author | : Hernan Cortes |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 647 |
| Release | : 2001-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0300090943 |
Written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, Hernan Cortes's letters provide a narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortes's journey to Honduras in 1525. The two introductions set the letters in context.
The Native Conquistador
| Author | : Amber Brian |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 127 |
| Release | : 2015-06-18 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0271072040 |
For many years, scholars of the conquest worked to shift focus away from the Spanish perspective and bring attention to the often-ignored voices and viewpoints of the Indians. But recent work that highlights the “Indian conquistadors” has forced scholars to reexamine the simple categories of conqueror and subject and to acknowledge the seemingly contradictory roles assumed by native peoples who chose to fight alongside the Spaniards against other native groups. The Native Conquistador—a translation of the “Thirteenth Relation,” written by don Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl in the early seventeenth century—narrates the conquest of Mexico from Hernando Cortés’s arrival in 1519 through his expedition into Central America in 1524. The protagonist of the story, however, is not the Spanish conquistador but Alva Ixtlilxochitl’s great-great-grandfather, the native prince Ixtlilxochitl of Tetzcoco. This account reveals the complex political dynamics that motivated Ixtlilxochitl’s decisive alliance with Cortés. Moreover, the dynamic plotline, propelled by the feats of Prince Ixtlilxochitl, has made this a compelling story for centuries—and one that will captivate students and scholars today.
The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards ...
| Author | : Antonio de Solís |
| Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2022-10-27 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781017594799 |
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