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hernán cortés Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)
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Examples for "Cortez"
Examples for "Cortez"
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I heard Cortez talking to some OPA bigwig a couple days ago.
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We need to get in there as quickly as possible, Sergeant Cortez.
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But Cortez soon managed to find out Prosecutor Ekström's mobile phone number.
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The speaker in my cheekbone crackled and Commander Cortez said, Two minutes.
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In the event, Ocasio-Cortez did not have a great deal to do.
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Commencement of the expedition of Hernando Cortes for the conquest of Mexico, in 1518.
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This man was Hernando Cortes, the Conqueror of Mexico.
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They called this country Anahuac and they meant the same that years afterward Hernando Cortes found.
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Discoveries and settlements of the Spaniards in the West Indies, from the death of Columbus, to the expedition of Hernando Cortes against Mexico.
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Hernando Cortes was the first man to have his sterile conquest of San Lorenzo recorded on paper.
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He'll be descended from Daniel Boone and also from, among others, a twentieth-century Puerto Rican, Hernando Cortez.
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He was the direct, sole heir to these treasures wrested from the Incas and those peoples conquered by Hernando Cortez!
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Such was the fleet and such the force with which Hernando Cortez set sail to conquer a powerful and warlike nation.
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This spirited and romantic presentation of the fearless conquistador, Hernando Cortez, shows him at the very height of his proud successes.
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He points to the bishop as the instigator of a desperate and perfidious man, who conspired against the life of Hernando Cortez.
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On the walls are the portraits of the vice-kings, beginning with Hernan Cortes.
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The headdress is believed to be a gift from Montezuma to 16th Century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes.
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From Cuba it was that Hernan Cortes (q.v.)
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The year 1519 of the Christian era was the year One Reed, and in that year Hernan Cortes landed his army on Mexican soil!
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About ten miles from the town of Cuernavaca there is the magnificent hacienda of Atlascomulco, originally owned by Hernan Cortez.
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The Hernan Cortez squadron, under Captain Capa, was in vanguard, and attacked a band commanded by Bellito, which had come to meet the column.
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It is thought Cortes sent it to the Spanish king in Europe.
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Franco's Cortes was dissolved, and a political reform law was approved overwhelmingly.
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The deputies have never been able to accomplish anything in the Cortes.
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Reporting by Raul Cortes Fernandez Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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The Cortes of Spain had just proclaimed the sovereignty of the people.
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Expeditions sent by Cortes to reduce the provinces of the Mexican empire.
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Joan Ribera, the secretary of Cortes, came in the ship to Spain.
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This disagreement in the Cortes is a very serious thing for Spain.
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Leaving a guard at the temple, Cortes came back to the garrison.
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I do not mean De Barrios of Seville, the brother-in-law of Cortes.
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The cap which Cortes had sent was returned filled with gold dust.
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The charge against him, so Cortes writes to Charles V., was conspiracy.
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You can never do this thing, and Cortes would not suffer it.
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There is a suit of armour said to have belonged to Cortes.
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We referred him to Cortes at Mexico, to which place he went.
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For a while Cortes listened, then he pushed her from him roughly.