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Title: Hernando Cortez
Makers of History
Author: John S. C. Abbott
Release Date: May 23, 2010 [EBook #32490]
Language: English
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Makers of History
Hernando Cortez
BY
JOHN S. C. ABBOTT
WITH ENGRAVINGS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1901
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-six, by
HARPER & BROTHERS
in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District
of New York.
Copyright, 1884, by SUSAN ABBOT MEAD.
PREFACE.
The career of Hernando Cortez is one of the most wild and adventurous
recorded in the annals of fact or fiction, and yet all the prominent
events in his wondrous history are well authenticated. All _truth_
carries with itself an important moral. The writer, in this narrative,
has simply attempted to give a vivid idea of the adventures of
Cortez and his companions in the Conquest of Mexico. There are many
inferences of vast moment to which the recital leads. These are so
obvious that they need not be pointed out by the writer.
A small portion of this volume has appeared in Harper's Magazine, in
an article furnished by the writer upon the Conquest of Mexico.
CONTENTS
Chapter Page
I. THE DISCOVERY OF MEXICO 13
II. EARLY LIFE OF CORTEZ 28
III. THE VOYAGE TO MEXICO 57
IV. FOUNDING A COLONY 84
V. THE TLASCALANS SUBJUGATED 117
VI. THE MARCH TO MEXICO 150
VII. THE METROPOLIS INVADED 184
VIII. BATTLE OF THE DISMAL NIGHT
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