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Definition of Cortez
1. Noun. Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547).
Generic synonyms: Conquistador
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cortez
Literary usage of Cortez
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New History of the Conquest of Mexico: In which Las Casas' Denunciations by Wilson, Robert Anderson, 1812- (1859)
"Cortez SETTLES AFFAIRS AT VERA CRUZ, AND MARCHES TO ... The expedition of Cortez,
we have seen, was in nowise in a moral view superior to those which ..."
2. The Spanish Conquest in America, and Its Relation to the History of Slavery by Arthur Helps (1857)
"RETURN OF Cortez TO MEXICO. - PONCE DE LEON COMES TO TAKE A RESIDENCIA OF Cortez.
E next great transaction of Cortez is one which -a- led to the most ..."
3. The History of Modern Europe: And a View of the Progress of Society from the by William Russell (1837)
"Cortez was inflexible. At last they had recourse to threats, according to their
... Cortez proposed an alliance to the senate; but that assembly resolved, ..."
4. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"to Amador de Lares, the Royal Auditor, who recommended Hernan Cortez. The appointment
gave Cortez great delight: he expended his own money, to the amount of ..."
5. The First Book of History, for Children and Youth by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1849)
"This was exactly what Cortez desired, for he knew that the soldiers, ...
But Montezuma was still afraid of Cortez; and he therefore sent two of his princes ..."
6. The Indian Races of North and South America: Comprising an Account of the by Charles De Wolf Brownell, Joel Tyler Headley (1864)
"Cortez was not yet satisfied ; he felt his situation to be precarious, ...
Cortez knew of these events when at Cholula, but had kept them concealed from ..."
7. Mexico, Aztec, Spanish and Republican: A Historical, Geographical, Political by Brantz Mayer (1852)
"Cortez ACCUSED ORDERED TO SPAIN FOR TRIAL. HIS RECEPTION, HONORS AND TITLES HE
... The great error of his life had been in breaking with Cortez before he ..."
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