Cortez Claiming Mexico For Spain, 1519 Metal Print

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Image taken from page 8 of "The History of Mexico and its wars with revisions and additions up to the present time, by the publisher A. Hawkins. Embellished with engravings" by John Frost, 1882. Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro (1485 - December 2, 1547) was a Spanish Conquistador who part of the generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. He was born at Medellin into minor nobility, and after studying at Salamanca chose to look for his fortune in Hispaniola and later Cuba. In 1519, against the orders of the Governor, he led an expedition to the mainland that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile. He used a native woman, Doña Marina, as an interpreter; she would later bear him a son. When the Governor of Cuba sent emissaries to arrest Cortés, he fought them and won. He wrote letters directly to the king asking to be acknowledged for his successe...