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Definition of Hernando Cortez

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hernando Cortez

Literary usage of Hernando Cortez

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

1. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"... we climbed a stairway to the second story of the building, and gazed upon the only authentic painting of Hernando Cortez which exists in Mexico. ..."

2. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"... we climbed a stairway to the second story of the building, and gazed upon the only authentic painting of Hernando Cortez which exists in Mexico. ..."

3. The Indian Races of North and South America: Comprising an Account of the by Charles De Wolf Brownell, Joel Tyler Headley (1865)
"... Hernando Cortez. " • • . * The Race of Yore; How are they blotted from the things that be!"—SCOTT. THE kingdoms of New Spain, as Central America and the ..."

4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1844)
"3vols. London: Bentley. 1843. The l>tij>atche!> of Hernando Cortez, translated into English, from tke original Spanish, by G. FOLSOM. Wiley and Putnam. ..."

5. Lectures, Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"... we climbed a stairway to the second story of the building, and gazed upon the only authentic painting of Hernando Cortez which exists in Mexico. ..."

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