Originally titled Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva Espaa (The True History of the Conquest of New Spain), this first-person narrative by the military adventurer, conquistador, and settler Bernal Daz del Castillo (1492-1584) recounts the fall of Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II, the defeat of the Aztec Empire, and his participation in the Spanish military campaigns that brought them about. Daz served in three Mesoamerican expeditions, that of Francisco Hernndez de Crdoba to the Yucatn peninsula (1517); that of Juan de Grijalva (1518), and finally the expedition of Hernn Corts (1519) in the Valley of Mexico. Amongst chroniclers, Daz was most celebrated as Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) was amongst novelists.
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The Conquest of New Spain: A First Person Narrative of the Fall of the Aztec Empire
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Originally titled Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva Espaa (The True History of the Conquest of New Spain), this first-person narrative by the military adventurer, conquistador, and settler Bernal Daz del Castillo (1492-1584) recounts the fall of Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II, the defeat of the Aztec Empire, and his participation in the Spanish military campaigns that brought them about. Daz served in three Mesoamerican expeditions, that of Francisco Hernndez de Crdoba to the Yucatn peninsula (1517); that of Juan de Grijalva (1518), and finally the expedition of Hernn Corts (1519) in the Valley of Mexico. Amongst chroniclers, Daz was most celebrated as Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) was amongst novelists.
Paperback
$34.99