Definition of Hernando Cortes

1. Noun. Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Hernando Cortes

Hermannia verticillata
Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome
Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome type VI
Hermaphroditus
Hermes
Hermian
Hermione
Hermissenda
Hermitian
Hermogenian
Hermogenians
Hermosillo
Hernan Cortes
Hernan Cortez
Hernando Cortes (current term)
Hernando Cortez
Hernaria
Hernaria glabra
Herndon
Herne
Hero
Hero of Alexandria
Herod
Herod the Great
Herodian
Herodians
Herodotean
Herodotus
Heroica Puebla de Zaragoza

Literary usage of Hernando Cortes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the Conquest of Mexico by William Hickling Prescott (1873)
"CHAPTER H. Hernando Cortes.—His early Life.—Visits the New World. ... Hernando Cortes was horn at Medellin, a town in the south-east corner of Estremadura,i ..."

2. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... Hernando Cortes AD 1519. Chap. VIII. [in.v. Conquest of Mexico and New Spaine by Hernando Cortes. Ernando" Cortes was borne at Medellin in ..."

3. The Missions and Missionaries of California by Zephyrin Engelhardt (1908)
"The term California is first mentioned by Bernal Diaz, the comrade in arms of Hernando Cortes;l New Albion was applied by the English freebooter. ..."

4. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... Hernando Cortes Chap. VIII. Conquest of Mexico and New Spaine by Hernando Cortes. Ernando* Cortes was borne at Medellin in ..."

5. The History of Hernando de Soto and Florida by Barnard Shipp (1881)
"Hernando Cortes IN HONDURAS. 1524-1526. WHEN Cortes had rebuilt and repeopled the city of Mexico, and had founded the towns of ..."

6. History of the Conquest of Mexico by William Hickling Prescott (1873)
"Hernando Cortes.—HIS EARLY LIFE.—VISITS THE NEW WORLD. ... Hernando Cortes was born at Medellin, a town in the southeast corner of Estremadura,' in 1485. ..."

7. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1843)
"The Despatches of Hernando Cortes, the Conqueror of Mexico, addressed to the Emperor Charles the Fifth, written during the Conquest, and containing a ..."

8. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1902)
"... Hernando Cortes. In 1511 he had served with distinction under Velasquez in the ... Hernando Cortes ..."

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