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9781108017084

The True History of the Conquest of New Spain Vol 3

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    9781108017084

  • ISBN10:

    1108017088

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-08-26
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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Summary

Bernal Digrave;az del Castillo (14921584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernagrave;n Cortegrave;s, and participated in the campaigns that led to the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521. This 1928 translation of his journals derives from the 1904 edition by the Mexican historian Genaro Garcigrave;a - the first edition based on the original manuscript. Written as a corrective to accounts that overemphasised Cortegrave;s' exploits, Digrave;az's epic includes the experiences of the common soldier: hardship, thirst, long marches and unexpected attacks by rebels. The most complete contemporary chronicle of the Mexican conquest, this important historical document is also a captivating adventure narrative that combines factual accuracy with many dramatic anecdotes. This final volume contains chapters 174214 and historical appendices by the editor. Digrave;az describes the aftermath of the Mexican conquest, and outlines how the Spanish established their authority over the land and its inhabitants.

Table of Contents

The Return to the Valley
How we marched with all our army on the way to the city of Texcoco
How we went to Iztapalapa with Cortés
How three pueblo in the neighbourhood of Texcoco sent to ask for peace and pardon
How Gonzalo de Sandoval went to Tlaxcala to fetch the timber for the launches
Preliminary Expeditions
How our captain Cortés went on an expedition to the peublo of Saltocan
How Captain Gonzalo de Sandoval went to Chalco and Tlamanalco with the whole of his army
How the slaves were branded in Texcoco
How our Captain Cortés went on an expedition
About the great thirst that we endured on the march
How when we arrived at Texcoco it had been settled among certain of those persons who came with Narvaez to kill Cortés
The Siege and Fall of Mexico
How Cortés ordered all the pueblos which were friendly to us in the neighbourhood of Texcoco to make a store of arrows
How a review was held in the city of Texcoco
How Cortés sought the rowers who were needed to row the launches
How Cortés ordered three divisions to go and invest the great city of Mexico
How Cortés ordered the twelve launches to be stationed
About the battles and encounters that we went through
About the way in which we fought, and the many attacks that the Mexicans made on us
How Cortés sent three Mexican chieftains to beg Guatemoc to make peace
How Guatemoc had arranged with the provinces of Matalzingo and Tulapa and Malinalco and other pueblos to come to his assistance
How Gonzalo de Sandoval with twelve launches entered into the part of the city where Guatemoc was and took him provinces
What Cortés ordered to be done
The Settlement
How letters reached Cort̩s that a certain Cristob̒l de T̒pia had arrived at the Port of Vera Cruz
How Cortés and the King's officers decided to send to His Majesty all the gold that had accrued
How Gonzalo de Sandoval arrived with his army at a pueblo called Tuxtepec
How Pedro de Alvarado went to Tututepec to found a town
How Francisco de Garay came from Jamaica
How the Licentiate Alonzo de Zuazo came in a caravel to New Spain
How Cortés sent Pedro de Alvarado to the province of Guatemala
How Cortés sent a fleet to pacify and conquer the provinces of Higueras and Honduras
How those of us who had settled at Coatzacoalcos were constantly going about pacifying the provinces which revolted against us
How our proctors who were in Spain challenged the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Burgos
How PÃínfilo de Narvaez and CristobÃíl de TÃípia and a pilot named Gonzalo de Umbria, and another soldier named CÃírdenas appeared before His Majesty
What Cortés was engaged upon after he was invested with the government of New Spain
How Captain Hernando Cortés sent to Castile to His Majesty eighty thousand pesos in gold and silver
How there came to the Port of Vera Cruz twelve Franciscan Friars
How Cortés wrote to His Majesty and sent him thirty thousand pesos de oro
How when Cort̩s learnt that Cristob̒l de Olid had rebelled he sent against him a captain named Francisco de Las Casas
Appendix
Index
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