But in 1511 he was well enough to take part in the conquest of ... two men quarrelled. Cortes ignored Velazquez and went anyway, taking between 400-600 men and landing at Tabasco where he spent ...

Cortés to Hitler, the age of conquest, it seemed, was finally over. The End of the End of the Age of Conquest Not really, of course. Cold warriors found many ways to circumvent the “rules,” and didn’t ...

After the conquest, Cortés served as a clerk to the treasurer and later as mayor of Santiago, a town which had been established after the conquest and served as the island's capital for a brief ...

Yale professor emeritus John Demos explained the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs by Conquistador Hernán Cortés. He spoke about the advantages that the Spanish had over the Aztecs in spite of ...

Cortés has given way to Netanyahu, Putin, and Trump. A new age of conquest is upon us. Boys watch smoke billowing during Israeli strikes east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 13 ...

Also known as Maltintzin, Malinalli, or Doña Marina (as the Spanish called her), she was known as Hernán Cortés's translator during the Spanish conquest ... chief of Tabasco, she fell into ...

All history is stories, all the way down. Perhaps the most infamous figure of the Mexican conquest is Malinalli, a Nahua princess “given” to Cortés by her Maya enslavers shortly after his ...

The Aztec outnumbered the Spanish, but that didn't stop Hernán Cortés from seizing Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, in 1521. This 18th-century oil painting, part of the Conquest of Mexico series ...

Yet had the initial meeting between the two protagonists — Hernán Cortés, the cocksure Spanish ... You Dreamed of Empires suggests that the conquest of Mexico was the product of mishaps ...

Durante el camino de regreso, en Tabasco, Cortés fue alertado de una supuesta conspiración para asesinarlo, liderada por el propio tlatoani. Cuauhtémoc fue ejecutado por Hernán Cortés en ...