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After the battle the surviving defenders melted away into the forests, leaving the Spanish to occupy an abandoned Maya town. [194] Martín de Ursúa planted his standard upon the highest point of the island and renamed Nojpetén as Nuestra Señora de los Remedios y San Pablo, Laguna del Itza ("Our Lady of Remedy and Saint Paul, Lake of the Itza ...
The battle began on April 30, and involved the Texas-Yucatan force that had been attacking and clearing the Gulf of Mexico of Mexican merchant and fishing boats, against a small Mexican squadron which consisted of sailing ships and a small steamer, the Regenerador. The initial battle lasted a few hours and was a draw, as both sides retired.
Tales From The Yucatan: The Caste War of the Yucatan; The Caste War, the Church of the Speaking Cross, and the Cruzob Maya – by Jeanine Kitchel ← Dead link; The Caste Wars of the Yucatan and Northern Belize Archived 2005-11-25 at the Wayback Machine; In Search of the Talking Cross of Chan Santa Cruz Archived 2012-03-27 at the Wayback Machine
Battle of San Juan (1625) Battle in the Bay of Matanzas (1628) Battle of St. Kitts (1629) Recovery of Saint Martin (1633) Attack on San Martin (1644) Spanish Empire. Spanish Netherlands; Crown of Castile. New Spain; Peru; Crown of Portugal (1580–1640) State of Brazil; Crown of Aragon. Kingdom of Sicily; Kingdom of Naples; Kingdom of Sardinia ...
Juan de Villagutierre Soto-Mayor was a Spanish colonial official who wrote the Historia de la Conquista de la Provincia de el Itza, reduccion, y progressos de la de el Lacandon, y otras naciones de indios barbaros, de la mediacion de el Reyno de Guatimala, a las provincias del Yucatan en la América Septentrional ("History of the Conquest of ...
The battle was an inspirational event for wartime Mexico, and slowed the French advanced to Mexico City. When Juárez repudiated the debts incurred by the rival conservative Mexican government in 1861, Mexican conservatives and European powers, especially France took the opportunity to place a European monarch as head of state in Mexico.
It was a definitive battle for the Conquest of Yucatán. With that victory, the Spaniards consolidated their control of the western part of the peninsula. Francisco de Montejo "El Adelantado" appointed his nephew, Francisco de Montejo "el Sobrino", to head the conquest of the eastern Yucatán, which was achieved after many bloody battles ...
A contemporary portrait of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba in the Museo Histórico Naval, Veracruz, Mexico Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko eɾˈnandeθ ðe ˈkoɾðoβa]; c. 1467 in Córdoba – 1517 in Sancti Spíritus) was a Spanish conquistador from Córdoba, known for the ill-fated expedition he led in 1517, in the course of which the first European accounts of ...