Hernán Cortés

✶January 1, 1485

†December 12, 1547

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About their life

Hernán Cortés, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish conquistador, military commander, explorer, captain general, and writer who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

Spanish conquistador

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Biography from the article Hernán Cortés on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.