Does anyone know about Hernan Cortes?

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He was the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire among others

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hernan cortes or hernando cortes was a Spanish conquistador who discovered the city of Tenochititlan, the Aztec Empire capital. With about 500 men, he defeated their vast armies and took over Mexico, draining Lake Texcoco

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In you search engine type in "biography, Hernan Cortez" and you will find enough info there for a 100 page report.

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Hernán(do) Cortés, Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca (1485–December 2, 1547) was the conquistador who became famous for leading the military expedition that initiated the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. Cortés was part of the generation of European colonizers that began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

Born in Medellin, Extremadura, in Castile, to a family of lesser nobility, Cortés as a young man chose to win a livelihood in the New World. He went to Hispaniola and later to Cuba, where he received an encomienda and for a period became mayor of a small town. In 1519 he was elected captain of the third expedition to the mainland, an expedition which he partly funded. His enmity with the governor of Cuba Diego Velázquez resulted in the latter calling back the expedition in the last moment, an order which was ignored by Cortés in an act of disobedience. Arriving on the continent Cortés executed a successful strategy of allying with some indigenous peoples against others. He also successfully used a native woman, Doña Marina, as interpreter. Later, she would bear Cortés a son. When the Governor of Cuba sent emissaries to arrest Cortés he fought them and won and used the extra troops as reinforcements. Instead he wrote letters directly to the king asking to be acknowledged for his successes instead of punished for mutiny. When the Aztec empire was overthrown Cortés was awarded the title of Marques del Valle de Oaxaca, while the more prestigious titles of Viceroy was given to relatives of the king. Cortés returned to Spain where he died peacefully but embittered.

Due to the controversial undertakings of Cortés and the scarcity of reliable sources of information about him it has become difficult to assert anything definitive about his personality and motivations. Early heroification of the conquistadors did not encourage deep examination of Cortés. Later reconsideration of the conquistadors' character in the context of modern anti-colonial sentiment and greatly expanded concern for human rights, as typified by the Black Legend, also did little to expand our understanding of Cortés as an individual. As a result of these historical trends, descriptions of Cortés tend to be simplistic, and either black or rosy coloured.

The sources regarding the life of Cortés
There are relatively few sources to the early life of Cortés, his fame arose from his participation in the conquest of Mexico and it was only after this that people became interested in reading and writing about him. Probably the best source is his letters to the king which he wrote during the campaign in Mexico, but they are written with the specific purpose of putting his efforts in a favourable light and so must be read critically. Another main source is the biography written by Cortés' private chaplain Lopez de Gómara, which was written in Spain several years after the conquest. Gómara never set foot in the Americas and knew only what Cortés had told him, and he had an affinity for knightly romantic stories which he incorporated richly in the biography. The third major source is written as a reaction to what its author calls "the lies of Gomara", the account written by the Conquistador Bernal Díaz del Castillo does not paint Cortés as a romantic hero but rather tries to emphasize that also Cortés' men should be remembered as important participants in the undertakings in Mexico. In the years following the conquest also more critical accounts of the Spanish arrival in Mexico were written. The Dominican friar Bartolomé de Las Casas wrote his A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies in which he raised strong accusations of brutality, and heinous violence towards the Indians against the conquistadors in general and Cortés in particular. The accounts of the conquest given in the Florentine Codex by the Franciscan Bernardino de Sahagún and his native informants are also less than flattering towards Cortés. The result of the scarce sources to the life of Cortés has been sharp divisions in the description of Cortés' personality and a tendency to describe him as either a vicious and ruthless person or a noble and honorable cavalier.

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he was from andalusia!!he was a fine figure of a man with red hair and pointed goatee and a temper to match!he was an able horseman and had fought against the moors!he fought the llashcalan indians on the mexican coast after they said that they would "gnaw on their bones by dusk!!" and after defeating them ,they aid him against their masters the aztecs who were taxing them and taking the best of their youth for sacrifices to their gods!!he was aided by the trabslation services of an indian woman named "malinche" who had been a captive of the aztecs and knew several local languages!!cortez rewarded her profusely!!and was notablly fond of her company!!the aztec warriors that he had met in embassadorial meetings ,although seasoned and tremendously brave fainted at the firing of his cannon!! and were very fearful of the spaniards' sspirited,blood-sweating horses!!the llashcalans were a major contributing forces in cortez's quest of mexico!!cortez at one point burned his vesselss to show the aztecs that he intended to conquer or perish!!and this gave no possibility of dissertion to any man!!like his ccousin pizarro after him had accomplished in peru with the incas; he captured the head of the nation without a fight and tried to rule through controling the center of native government!!with the capitol in his hands he left pedro de alvarado in charge and sailed back to spain with some of the natives lords and peasants and a representative amount of jewels and treasure,to enlist more aid from the spainish court!!he was designated viceroy and the duke de valle and was allowde to enlist adventurers to accompany him back to tenochitlan surrounded by lake texcoco!!when he returned the indians had rebelled in his abscence,many conquistadores were killed or sacrificed alive with their hearts being torn out!the "noche de triste" was the night of sorrows as they were driven ,before cortez''s return, from the city and it's causeways!!cortez took the fittings from his burned vessels,rope and rigging and made sloops of war to reengage the capitol from the safety of the lake in steady forays they starved and fought the beleaguered defenders into submission and retreat to the shores of the surrounding countyside at texcoco,tacuba and tllatelulco!!moctezuma was killed by stones thrown at the spaniards and him at his palace as he tried to quell an uprising in the streets nearby!!cortez went on west and north but nothing was found that could compete with the city of tenochtitlan for wealth ,grandeur of positon or wealth!!he cause ships to be made that were sent from navidad on the sea of cortez north to discover california and the pacific coast shoreline one was named the "victoria"!!wwwhich reached newport bay in the late 1500's but was lost along the orange county coast after breaking her anchors and floating south!!coins of the holy roman empire and earlier roman empire coins have been found there indicative of the pay given to some of cortez's men while serving in previous engagements in italy and southern europe!!bodies of several of cortez's conquistadores were found buried in rocks in upper newport bay in orange county in 1955!!and the remains of the victoria was found in oceaansiside but was again lost to history even though several roman empire and other coins were found by a girl snorkeling nearby in 1962 near the mouth of a stream feeding into the sea!!the sea of cortez is ,of course named after this wiley and complicated adventurer and explorer!!