During Cortes’s absence, Alvarado’s execution of many Aztec chiefs enraged the people. After defeating Velázquez’s forces, Cortés returned to Tenochtitlan on June 24, 1520, to find the ...

In a sense, 1521 is Mexico's 1619. A foundational moment that has for a long time been shaped by just one perspective, a European one. The story of how Hernán Cortés and his small army of ...

In a sense, 1521 is Mexico's 1619. A foundational moment that for centuries has been shaped by just one perspective: a European one. The story of how Hernán Cortés and a few hundred Spaniards ...

Object Details Author Cortés, Hernán 1485-1547 Chamberlain, Robert Stoner 1903- Notes " [Translated] from a copy of the first eighty questions of the questionnaire in the Residencia of Cortés, ...

A new analysis of a skeleton buried under Hernán Cortés' palace in Mexico reveals that it doesn't belong to a monk, as was long thought.

Boston Document signed by Hernán Cortés, found in Mass. auction, given back to Mexico Published: Jul. 21, 2023, 11:45 a.m.