Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican: A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical and Social Account of that Country from the Period of the Invasion by the Spaniards to the Present Time : with a View of the Ancient Aztec Empire and Civilization, a Historical Sketch of the Late War, and Notices of New Mexico and California, Volumen1S. Drake, 1853 |
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... called , amid whose virgin mountains and forests he hoped to find new mines to repair the loss of those which were rapidly failing in Hispaniola . 1 — For the conquest of this imagined El Dorado , he prepared a small armament , under ...
... called , amid whose virgin mountains and forests he hoped to find new mines to repair the loss of those which were rapidly failing in Hispaniola . 1 — For the conquest of this imagined El Dorado , he prepared a small armament , under ...
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... called by the natives , " which , with its picturesque assemblage of water , woodland , and cultivated plains ; its shining cities and shadowy hills , was spread out like some gay and gorgeous panorama before them . In the highly ...
... called by the natives , " which , with its picturesque assemblage of water , woodland , and cultivated plains ; its shining cities and shadowy hills , was spread out like some gay and gorgeous panorama before them . In the highly ...
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... called , was perhaps rather the base of a religious structure , than the religious edifice itself . We possess no accurate drawing of it among the contemporary or early relics of the conquest , that have descended to us ; but it is ...
... called , was perhaps rather the base of a religious structure , than the religious edifice itself . We possess no accurate drawing of it among the contemporary or early relics of the conquest , that have descended to us ; but it is ...
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... called the " in- censing of Huitzilopotchtli . " Six hundred victims , were , on that occasion , slain by the Spaniards , in cold blood , in the neighbor- hood of the Great Temple ; nor was a single native , engaged in 45 CORTEZ ...
... called the " in- censing of Huitzilopotchtli . " Six hundred victims , were , on that occasion , slain by the Spaniards , in cold blood , in the neighbor- hood of the Great Temple ; nor was a single native , engaged in 45 CORTEZ ...
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... called San Cristoval , — and took possession of the insular town of Xaltocan . Passing thence along the western edge of the vale of Anahuac or Mexico , he reached the city of Tacuba , west of the capital , with which so many disastrous ...
... called San Cristoval , — and took possession of the insular town of Xaltocan . Passing thence along the western edge of the vale of Anahuac or Mexico , he reached the city of Tacuba , west of the capital , with which so many disastrous ...
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