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The Totonacs have the dubious distinction of allying themselves with Cortes against the Aztecs.
From this deplorable apathy Cortes was roused by fresh advices urging his presence in Mexico.
They inadvertently stow away on a ship captained by the explorer Cortes, managing to escape with the assistance of a horse.
When Monteczuma's envoys came to Tabasco to find out information about Cortes, they spoke only Nahuatl while Cortes's Spanish translator spoke only Mayan.
Just four weeks before the massive collapse of the mine, a mini-avalanche sliced off the left leg of worker Gino Cortes.
Cortes considers himself Spanish by birth and gypsy by heritage.
While much of the California coast saw breakers in the six to eight-foot range, the faces of the bigger waves at Cortes were well over 35 feet from trough to crest.
Hernan Cortes stayed at Juan's home in Trinidad, Cuba, at the start of his Mexican expedition.
After being baptized, the 20 slave girls were distributed by Cortes among his Spanish captains.
According to Cortes, Moctezuma immediately volunteered to cede his entire realm to Charles V, King of Spain.
In April 1528, when Philip was eleven months old, he received the oath of allegiance as heir to the crown from the Cortes of Castile.
One of the nation's premier photo-realism artists, Tim Cortes uses color pencil as his preferred medium.
The novels that make up The Cortes Trilogy by John Paul Davis take place in the Isles of Scilly.
At the same time, the deputies of the Kingdom in the Cortes stopped being called.
Castile was an authoritarian kingdom, where the monarch's own will easily overrode law and the Cortes.
In October 1499, he sent two ships to Spain, asking the Cortes Generales of Castile to appoint a royal commissioner to help him govern.
Under Alfonso X, most sessions of the Cortes of both kingdoms were held jointly.
Aragon, Catalonia and Valencia each had a legislative body, known as the Cortes in Aragon or Corts in Catalonia and Valencia.
Cortes then applied all of his funds, mortgaged his estates and borrowed from merchants and friends to outfit his ships.
To fix this problem, during the Cortes of 1476, a general Hermandad was established for Castile, Leon, and Asturias.
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The Carlists were scheming, and the Cortes was driven to an immediate decision.
Montezuma heard of the disembarkment of Fernando Cortes three days after it took place.
Some score of miles off the north-east coast is the island of Cozumel, where Cortes first landed on his voyage of the Conquest.
Her Cortes was not a national assembly, and its members were not the choice of the people.
Cortes progress through the streets of Iztapalapan was antitypical of the grander reception awaiting him in Tenochtitlan.
At the place where it flowed into the bay on which Puerto Cortes was built, the stream was wide and deep.
If you will travel northeast you will come again to Puerto Cortes in due season.
Cortes, therefore, was in receipt of a liberal education for his day.
A mass celebrated by Father Adonai Cortes in the Iglesia de San Felix on Feb.
Neither Cortes nor montezuma himself knew that he had been deposed.
A half-century later, when Cortes made his final attack on Tenochtitlan, at least 100,000 native warriors fought the Aztecs with him.
Here are the conquistadores grouped, Cortes and his associates.
As he explained to his friends, they would take the steamer from New York to Puerto Cortes, one of the principal seaports of Honduras.
The cap which Cortes had sent was returned filled with gold dust.
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