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Mrs. Steele recalls Hernando Cortes 'wonder and delight at the flowery surprises of the new world three hundred years ago.
Under the Southern Cross Elizabeth Robins 1907
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And that's just a single 100-year period, for a disease that disfigured Egyptian pharaohs, allied with Hernando Cortes to rout the Aztecs, left a young George Washington scarred, later stalked his Continental Army, and left Abraham Lincoln pale, weak, and dizzy as he delivered his Gettysburg Address.
Matt Bivens: Cure Millions of Leprosy -- or Just Give Hank Paulson a Tax Break? 2009
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Bones, in some ways, I still feel like Hernando Cortes or Francisco Pizarro. . .
The Abode of Life Lee Correy 1990
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Bones, in some ways, I still feel like Hernando Cortes or Francisco Pizarro. . .
The Abode of Life Lee Correy 1990
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Bones, in some ways, I still feel like Hernando Cortes or Francisco Pizarro. . .
The Abode of Life Lee Correy 1990
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-- Hernando Cortes, the conqueror of Mexico, sailed from
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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They called this country Anahuac and they meant the same that years afterward Hernando Cortes found.
1492, 1922
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Such, indeed, might have been the sentiment which inspired the breasts of Hernando Cortes and his Spaniards on that memorable Good Friday,
Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919
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Hernando Cortes, the young Spaniard who, born in Estremadura in 1485, had set out, impatient of the old world, to seek his fortunes in the new: and had amassed -- "God knows by what methods," as one of his chroniclers says -- a small fortune under the Governor's rule.
Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919
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Eyewitnesses of the conquest like Hernando Cortes, Cartes de Relacion, and the sources in Ramusio are of great importance, but should be treated with circumspection as interested reporters.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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