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Hernán Cortés’ Expedition to New Spain

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:32:42 +0000

Information at the request of Gonzalo de Guzmán, before the governor and adelantado Diego Velázquez, about the expedition of Hernán Cortés to New Spain, taking with him Alonso Fernández Puertocarrero and Francisco Montejo, a certain Alaminos as pilot and a Bautista as master. They were determined to follow up the discoveries made earlier by Juan de Grijalva. Arriving at a certain place, they took a ship, and loading it with gold and other riches, they sailed along dark and dangerous roads, fleeing lest they be caught. Signed by Diego Velázquez – Santiago de Cuba, 7 October 1519

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Conquest of Mexico. Moctezuma’s reception

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:33 +0000

The image depicts the retinue formed by the Emperor Montezuma and his nobles, organised to meet Hernán Cortés and welcome him as he entered the city of Mexico-Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital. This work is part of a set of 24 panels produced using the technique of ‘enconchado’. This passage of the Conquest of Mexico was narrated by numerous chroniclers, who served as inspiration for the authors of several pictorial series in which the images depict the most significant events of the story. The series is signed in 1698 by two painters who lived in Mexico City, the capital of the Viceroyalty of New Spain: Juan and Miguel González, the most famous artists in the production of enconchados. The entire ensemble was commissioned for King Charles II and from the beginning of the 18th century it became part of the royal collections. In the enconchados, the pictorial layer is combined with fragments of mother-of-pearl arranged on a preparation of plaster applied to a wooden support, often covered with canvas. The production of this type of work can be traced to Mexico between the mid-17th and 18th centuries.

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Map of the province of Baja California discovered by Hernán Cortés

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:09 +0000

Hernán Cortés is now considered the discoverer of the Baja California peninsula, although the first European to land there was Fortún Jiménez (who thought it was an island). Cortés undertook in 1529, while in Spain, to send soldiers to discover islands and territories in the South Sea where his main aim was to find a link between the Pacific and the Atlantic in addition to land and the more than possible and coveted precious metals such as gold. Embarked on the ship San Lázaro, Cortés arrived at Bahía de la Santa Cruz on 3 May 1535, a territory now known as La Paz, located in Baja California del Sur, where Fortún Jiménez died. There he established a colony with materials and soldiers from Sinaloa where, due to bad weather, only one of the ships in charge of transporting supplies appeared. The supply problem was considerable and the discoverer returned to New Spain to supply the region, leaving the province under the command of Francisco de Ulloa. However, in the face of general discontent and unrest, the viceroy ordered the settlers to return to the same destination to which Cortés had gone.

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Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:28:11 +0000

A 7-minute video in which the figure of Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico are briefly analysed. It is essential to revisit the events that ancient chronicles have left us. What happened between 1519 and the fall of the Mexica Empire constitutes the first Hispanic continental advance in the New World. These events have lent themselves to various mythologies that present the Spaniards as a sort of supermen in shining armour, but also as a predatory band that wiped out an arcadian world. Iván Vélez, with great acuity and critical sense, analyses the complex warlike, juridical, economic and religious aspects that accompanied the conquest, but also the political order that succeeded it. A raw, exciting and extraordinary story about one of the greatest adventures the world has ever seen.

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Explorers and travellers in Spain and the New World

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:59 +0000

Website of the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library where you can consult a wide selection of documents, bibliography and resources on the main historical figures, explorers and travellers who made journeys both in Spain and the American continent during the 15th and 16th centuries. To this end, the authors have reviewed a large part of the bibliography published to date. Among the explorers, names such as Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas, Hernán Cortés and Diego de Ocaña stand out. Among the travellers, there is information on more than 100 authors. Address: Emilio Soler Pascual: Emilio Soler Pascual

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Hernan

ad_hlab_min — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:23 +0000

Historical series that narrates the conquest of Mexico by Hernán Cortés, from a non-hagiographic perspective. The historical reconstruction is good, but the continuous jumps in time in the script make it difficult for viewers who do not know the history of the conquest to understand the events. Óscar Jaenada’s performance triggered very conflicting opinions. At the beginning of 2021, only one season has been broadcast, consisting of 8 episodes. There will be a second one, which is pending broadcast.

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