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Memorial to Bernal Díaz del Castillo in Medina del Campo, Spain. Bernal Díaz del Castillo (c. 1492 – 3 February 1584) was a Spanish conquistador who participated as a soldier in the conquest of the Aztec Empire under Hernán Cortés and late in his life wrote an account of the events.
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España (transl. The True History of the Conquest of New Spain) is a first-person narrative written in 1568 [1] by military adventurer, conquistador, and colonist settler Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492–1584), who served in three Mexican expeditions: those of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1517) to the Yucatán peninsula; the expedition of ...
Madrid: Imprenta del Reyno. OCLC 872147430. Díaz del Castillo, Bernal (1800) [First published 1632 by Imp. del Reyno in Madrid]. The true history of the conquest of Mexico, by Captain Bernal Diaz del Castillo, One of the Conquerors. Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España.English. Translated by Keatinge, Maurice.
Bernal Díaz del Castillo's True History of the Conquest of New Spain. The conquest of Mexico, the initial destruction of the great pre-Columbian civilizations, is a significant event in world history. The conquest was well documented by a variety of sources with differing points of view, including indigenous accounts, by both allies and opponents.
Bernal Díaz del Castillo served as a rodelero, or soldier armed with sword and buckler, in Cortés' expedition, and personally participated in the nocturnal battle known as "La noche triste." His Chapter CXXVIII ("How we agreed to flee from Mexico, and what we did about it") is an account of the event.
Messages between Cortés and Moctezuma, however, frequently allude to the legend, which was widely known across the Aztec dominions to both Aztecs and their subjects. It strongly influenced them, as Bernal Díaz del Castillo repeatedly attests. [citation needed] Moctezuma sent a group of noblemen and other emissaries to meet Cortés at ...
Bernal Díaz del Castillo refers to the ruler of Cempoala as "Fat Cacique" in his book Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España (True history of the conquest of New Spain), due to his physical aspect. He was described as being overwhelmingly corpulent by the Spaniards, and was likely tall. Díaz del Castillo writes:
English: Memorial in honour of Bernal Días del Castillo(1492 or 1493 - 1581) was a soldier, who wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico under Hernán Cortés, he wrote a book that named "The Conquest of New Spain", about this conquest. This memorial is located in Medina del Campo (Spain)