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Title: Hernando Cortez
Makers of History

Author: John S. C. Abbott

Release Date: May 23, 2010 [EBook #32490]

Language: English

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Makers of History

Hernando Cortez

BY

JOHN S. C. ABBOTT

WITH ENGRAVINGS

NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1901

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-six, by

HARPER & BROTHERS

in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District
of New York.

Copyright, 1884, by SUSAN ABBOT MEAD.

PREFACE.

The career of Hernando Cortez is one of the most wild and adventurous
recorded in the annals of fact or fiction, and yet all the prominent
events in his wondrous history are well authenticated. All _truth_
carries with itself an important moral. The writer, in this narrative,
has simply attempted to give a vivid idea of the adventures of
Cortez and his companions in the Conquest of Mexico. There are many
inferences of vast moment to which the recital leads. These are so
obvious that they need not be pointed out by the writer.

A small portion of this volume has appeared in Harper's Magazine, in
an article furnished by the writer upon the Conquest of Mexico.

CONTENTS

Chapter Page

I. THE DISCOVERY OF MEXICO 13

II. EARLY LIFE OF CORTEZ 28

III. THE VOYAGE TO MEXICO 57

IV. FOUNDING A COLONY 84

V. THE TLASCALANS SUBJUGATED 117

VI. THE MARCH TO MEXICO 150

VII. THE METROPOLIS INVADED 184

VIII. BATTLE OF THE DISMAL NIGHT