The City Of Gold Or The Wonderful Story Of H Cortes And The Conquest Of Mexico
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The City Of Gold Or The Wonderful Story Of H Cortes And The Conquest Of Mexico
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Author : William Henry Davenport Adams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
The City Of Gold Or The Wonderful Story Of H Cortes And The Conquest Of Mexico written by William Henry Davenport Adams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with Aztecs categories.
The City Of Gold Or The Wonderful Story Of Hernando Cortes And The Conquest Of Mexico
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Author : William Henry Davenport Adams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
The City Of Gold Or The Wonderful Story Of Hernando Cortes And The Conquest Of Mexico written by William Henry Davenport Adams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Mexico categories.
Conquistador
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Author : Buddy Levy
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 2008-06-24
Conquistador written by Buddy Levy and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-24 with History categories.
In an astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an adventure thriller, historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures. “I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.” —Hernán Cortés It was a moment unique in human history, the face-to-face meeting between two men from civilizations a world apart. Only one would survive the encounter. In 1519, Hernán Cortés arrived on the shores of Mexico with a roughshod crew of adventurers and the intent to expand the Spanish empire. Along the way, this brash and roguish conquistador schemed to convert the native inhabitants to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. That he saw nothing paradoxical in his intentions is one of the most remarkable—and tragic—aspects of this unforgettable story of conquest. In Tenochtitlán, the famed City of Dreams, Cortés met his Aztec counterpart, Montezuma: king, divinity, ruler of fifteen million people, and commander of the most powerful military machine in the Americas. Yet in less than two years, Cortés defeated the entire Aztec nation in one of the most astonishing military campaigns ever waged. Sometimes outnumbered in battle thousands-to-one, Cortés repeatedly beat seemingly impossible odds. Buddy Levy meticulously researches the mix of cunning, courage, brutality, superstition, and finally disease that enabled Cortés and his men to survive. Conquistador is the story of a lost kingdom—a complex and sophisticated civilization where floating gardens, immense wealth, and reverence for art stood side by side with bloodstained temples and gruesome rites of human sacrifice. It’s the story of Montezuma—proud, spiritual, enigmatic, and doomed to misunderstand the stranger he thought a god. Epic in scope, as entertaining as it is enlightening, Conquistador is history at its most riveting. Praise for Conquistador “Prodigiously researched and stirringly told, Conquistador is a rarity: an invaluable history lesson that also happens to be a page-turning read.”—Jeremy Schaap, bestselling author of Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History, and Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler’s Olympics “Sweeping and majestic . . . A pulse-quickening narrative.”—Neal Bascomb, author of Red Mutiny: Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin
Publishers Circular And Booksellers Record Of British And Foreign Literature
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
Publishers Circular And Booksellers Record Of British And Foreign Literature written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with Bibliography categories.
Publishers Circular And Booksellers Record
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
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By Right Of Conquest Or With Cortez In Mexico
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Author : G. A. Henty
language : en
Publisher: VM eBooks
Release Date : 2016-12-15
By Right Of Conquest Or With Cortez In Mexico written by G. A. Henty and has been published by VM eBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-15 with Literary Collections categories.
The conquest of Mexico, an extensive empire with a numerous and warlike population, by a mere handful of Spaniards, is one of the romances of history. Indeed, a writer of fiction would scarcely have dared to invent so improbable a story. Even the bravery of the Spaniards, and the advantage of superior arms would not have sufficed to give them the victory, had it not been that Mexico was ripe for disruption. The Aztecs, instead of conciliating by wise and gentle government the peoples they had conquered, treated them with such despotic harshness that they were ready to ally themselves with the invaders, and to join with them heartily against the central power; so that instead of battling against an empire single-handed, the Spaniards had really only to war with a great city, and were assisted by a vast army of auxiliaries. Fortunately, the details of the extraordinary expedition of Cortez were fully related by contemporary writers, several of whom were eyewitnesses of the scenes they described. It was not necessary for me, however, to revert to these; as Prescott, in his admirable work on the conquest of Mexico, has given a summary of them; and has drawn a most vivid picture of the events of the campaign. The book far surpasses in interest any volume of fiction, and I should strongly recommend my readers to take the first opportunity that occurs of perusing the whole story, of which I have only been able to touch upon the principal events. While history is silent as to the voyage of the Swan, it is recorded by the Spaniards that an English ship did, in 1517 or 1518, appear off the port of San Domingo, and was fired at by them, and chased from the islands; but it was not until some twenty or thirty years later that the English buccaneers openly sailed to challenge the supremacy of the Spaniards among the Western Islands, and to dispute their pretensions to exclude all other flags but their own from those waters. It may, however, be well believed that the ship spoken of was not the only English craft that entered the Spanish main; and that the adventurous traders of the West country, more than once, dispatched ships to carry on an illicit trade there. Such enterprises would necessarily be conducted with great secrecy, until the relations between Spain and England changed, and religious differences broke up the alliance that existed between them during the early days of Henry the 8th.
When Montezuma Met Cort S
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Author : Matthew Restall
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2018-01-30
When Montezuma Met Cort S written by Matthew Restall and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-30 with History categories.
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.
A Critical Dictionary Of English Literature And British And American Authors Living And Deceased From The Earliest Accounts To The Middle Of The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
A Critical Dictionary Of English Literature And British And American Authors Living And Deceased From The Earliest Accounts To The Middle Of The Nineteenth Century written by Samuel Austin Allibone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with categories.
The Adventures Of Hernan Cortes The Conqueror Of Mexico
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Author : Francis L. Hawks
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-06-02
The Adventures Of Hernan Cortes The Conqueror Of Mexico written by Francis L. Hawks and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-02 with History categories.
"The adventures of Hernan Cortes" by Francis L. Hawks is a biography of Hernan Cortes (1485-1547). He 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. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The book sheds light on some important anecdotes about Mexican history.
Conquest
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Author : Hugh Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-04-16
Conquest written by Hugh Thomas and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-16 with History categories.
Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with brilliance, drama, and profound historical insight, Hugh Thomas presents an engrossing narrative of one of the most significant events of Western history. Ringing with the fury of two great empires locked in an epic battle, Conquest captures in extraordinary detail the Mexican and Spanish civilizations and offers unprecedented in-depth portraits of the legendary opponents, Montezuma and Cortés. Conquest is an essential work of history from one of our most gifted historians.