Diaz Del Castillo Bernal, Bernal Daz Del Castillo, Bernal Diaz Del Castillo

The True History of the Conquest of New Spain

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Produktbeschreibung

An eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico (1519 1522); this volume focuses on the fall of Mexico in 1521.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 595g
• ISBN-13: 9781108017084
• ISBN-10: 1108017088
• Artikelnr.: 30365653

Inhaltsangabe

Book X. The Return to the Valley: 137. How we marched with all our army on
the way to the city of Texcoco; 138. How we went to Iztapalapa with Cortés;
139. How three pueblo in the neighbourhood of Texcoco sent to ask for peace
and pardon; 140. How Gonzalo de Sandoval went to Tlaxcala to fetch the
timber for the launches; Book XI. Preliminary Expeditions: 141. How our
captain Cortés went on an expedition to the peublo of Saltocan; 142. How
Captain Gonzalo de Sandoval went to Chalco and Tlamanalco with the whole of
his army; 143. How the slaves were branded in Texcoco; 144. How our Captain
Cortés went on an expedition; 145. About the great thirst that we endured
on the march; 146. How when we arrived at Texcoco it had been settled among
certain of those persons who came with Narvaez to kill Cortés; Book XII.
The Siege and Fall of Mexico: 147. How Cortés ordered all the pueblos which
were friendly to us in the neighbourhood of Texcoco to make a store of
arrows; 148. How a review was held in the city of Texcoco; 149. How Cortés
sought the rowers who were needed to row the launches; 150. How Cortés
ordered three divisions to go and invest the great city of Mexico; 151. How
Cortés ordered the twelve launches to be stationed; 152. About the battles
and encounters that we went through; 153. About the way in which we fought,
and the many attacks that the Mexicans made on us; 154. How Cortés sent
three Mexican chieftains to beg Guatemoc to make peace; 155. How Guatemoc
had arranged with the provinces of Matalzingo and Tulapa and Malinalco and
other pueblos to come to his assistance; 156. How Gonzalo de Sandoval with
twelve launches entered into the part of the city where Guatemoc was and
took him provinces; 157. What Cortés ordered to be done; Book XIII. The
Settlement: 158. How letters reached Cortés that a certain Cristobál de
Tápia had arrived at the Port of Vera Cruz; 159. How Cortés and the King's
officers decided to send to His Majesty all the gold that had accrued; 160.
How Gonzalo de Sandoval arrived with his army at a pueblo called Tuxtepec;
161. How Pedro de Alvarado went to Tututepec to found a town; 162. How
Francisco de Garay came from Jamaica; 163. How the Licentiate Alonzo de
Zuazo came in a caravel to New Spain; 164. How Cortés sent Pedro de
Alvarado to the province of Guatemala; 165. How Cortés sent a fleet to
pacify and conquer the provinces of Higueras and Honduras; 166. How those
of us who had settled at Coatzacoalcos were constantly going about
pacifying the provinces which revolted against us; 167. How our proctors
who were in Spain challenged the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Burgos; 168.
How Pánfilo de Narvaez and Cristobál de Tápia and a pilot named Gonzalo de
Umbria, and another soldier named Cárdenas appeared before His Majesty;
169. What Cortés was engaged upon after he was invested with the government
of New Spain; 170. How Captain Hernando Cortés sent to Castile to His
Majesty eighty thousand pesos in gold and silver; 171. How there came to
the Port of Vera Cruz twelve Franciscan Friars; 172. How Cortés wrote to
His Majesty and sent him thirty thousand pesos de oro; 173. How when Cortés
learnt that Cristobál de Olid had rebelled he sent against him a captain
named Francisco de Las Casas; Appendix; Index.