The Spanish colonization of Mexico began with Hernán Cortés's expedition in 1519 and led to the dramatic fall of the powerful ...

How much gold did Hernan Cortes find? Leonardo pointed out to us that Cortés sent 20 percent of what the Spaniards had to give to Charles V as a gift. The result is that Cortés and his men got away ...

MEXICO CITY - The body of Hernan Cortes, the conquistador who launched three centuries of Spanish rule in Mexico, today lies all but forgotten in a Mexico City church, even as a new debate rages ...

Five-hundred years ago, two men met and changed much of the world forever. About 500 Spanish conquistadors — ragged from skirmishes, a massacre of an Indigenous village and a hike between ...

The first conquistadors' fleet is 'found' 500 years after Hernan Cortes destroyed his ships in Mexico to stop his men fleeing. Archaeologists have discovered two iron ship anchors off Mexico's ...

On June 30, 1520, the Aztecs drove Hernán Cortés and his invading army out of their capital Tenochtitlan—an event that came to be known as "La Noche Triste" or "Sad Night." ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The year is 1519. Bernal Díaz, who later gained fame as chronicler of the Spanish conquest of the New ...