Díaz related how Cortés exhorted his soldiers on the eve of their long march. "Cortes then adduced many beautiful comparisons from history, and mentioned several heroic deeds of the Romans ...

Aztecs and Mexicas For centuries, we have referred to the ancient civilization of people who inhabited Tenochtitlán as the Aztecs. It's the more commonly known term, but it's not the most ...

Federal agents in Boston repatriated a manuscript signed by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés in 1527, believed to have been stolen before 1993, back to Mexico’s National Archives in a ...