Letters from Mexico

By Hernan Cortes,

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Hernan Cortes's Cartas de Relacion, written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortes's journey to Honduras in 1525.

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Reading this book, we have a front row seat at one of the most important moments of world history.

Over the course of his conquest of Mexico, Hernando wrote five letters to the King of Spain. He was often full of BSbut that doesn’t make his writings any less interesting! Cortés always had an eye on the main chance, so he wrote what he thought would impress.

Here, for instance, we find the story—impossible to believe—that as soon as Cortés arrived in the Aztec capital, he placed Montezuma, emperor of millions, under house arrest. Cortés had a translator…

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