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Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca [a] [b] (December 1485 – December 2, 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.
The Lakandon had a fierce reputation among the Spanish. [22] The Xocmo were another Chʼolan-speaking group; they occupied the remote forest somewhere to the east of the Lakandon. [15] Never conquered, the Xocmo escaped repeated Spanish attempts to locate them and their eventual fate is unknown; they may be ancestors of the modern Lacandon ...
Prescott, William H. History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a Preliminary View of Ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes ISBN 0-375-75803-8; Restall, Matthew. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. Oxford University Press (2003) ISBN 0-19-516077-0; Restall, Matthew.
La Noche Triste ("The Night of Sorrows", literally "The Sad Night"), officially re-branded in Mexico as La Noche Victoriosa [2] ("The Victorious Night"), was an important event during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, wherein Hernán Cortés, his army of Spanish conquistadors, and their native allies were driven out of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan.
In April 1519, Hernán Cortés, a nobleman recently landed in present-day Cuba and the leader of the third Spanish expedition to the coast of what is known as Mexico, landed at San Juan de Ulúa, a high-quality harbour on Mexico's east coast, with 508 soldiers, 100 sailors, and 14 small cannons.
The 27.89-acre area, comprised of five lots on eastbound Route 22 between Woodside Lane and Adamsville Road, is the subject of a Superior Court lawsuit brought by its owner, 1200 Route 22 Land ...
The Sula Valley runs from the Caribbean to the Pacific, offering a route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; [5] it contains Honduras' most important river, the Ulúa River, which flows 400 km (250 mi) northeast into the Gulf of Honduras. [6] The Mosquito Coast is located in the east, near the Nicaraguan border, and consists of dense ...
Around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, a two-car fatal crash occurred on state Route 22 in the Village of Pawling, according to the Dutchess County Sheriff's Office. Robert Tompkins, 74, Dover Plains, was ...