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Hernán Cortés
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Hernán Cortés
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Hernán Cortés : biography 1485 - 02 December 1547 Cortes and ] By the time he arrived in Tenochtitlan the Spaniards had a large army....
Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés : biography 1485 - 02 December 1547 It was not until he had been almost 15 years in the Indies, that Cortés began...
Hernán Cortés
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Hernán Cortés
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Hernán Cortés : biography 1485 - 02 December 1547 King Charles appointed Cortés as governor, captain general and chief justice of the newly conquered territory,...
Hernán Cortés
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