The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, also known as the Conquest of Mexico, was a pivotal event that took place during the Spanish colonization of the Americas, marked by the collision of the Azte
Cortés and his counselor, the Nahua woman La Malinche, meet Moctezuma in Tenochtitlan, 8 November 1519.
The death of Moctezuma, depicted in the Florentine Codex
Smallpox depicted in Book XII on the conquest of Mexico in the Florentine Codex
The Capture of Cuauhtemoc, 17th century, oil on canvas
Hernán Cortés
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Hernán Cortés, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish conquistador, military commander, explorer, captain general, and writer who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire
Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
…marked by the collision of the Aztec Triple Alliance and the Spanish Empire with its American Indian allies. Between 1519 and 1521, Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and his small army of European soldiers and the large allied army of Indian auxiliaries, overthrew the most powerful pre Columbian empire to exist in…
18th-century portrait of Cortés based on the one sent by the conqueror to Paolo Giovio, which has served as a model for many of his representations since the 16th century
Weiditz's depiction of Cortés in 1529
Copy of a portrait of Cortés dated to the year 1525
Cortés scuttling his own fleet off the coast of Veracruz in order to eliminate the possibility of retreat