by Hernan Cortes · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789700758305
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«Cartas de relación» is the historical epistolary collection by Hernán Cortés, published by Editorial Porrúa in paperback (399 pages, in Spanish).
It gathers the letters that Hernán Cortés sent to King Charles V during the conquest of Mexico. In them he recounts his journeys, battles, alliances and encounters with indigenous peoples, and sets out his vision of the New World to inform and justify his enterprise before the Crown.
Includes a preliminary note by Manuel Alcalá, of the Mexican Academy of Language, and belongs to the collection «Sepan cuantos...», no. 7.
For those interested in the history of Mexico and in direct testimonies about the conquest.
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.
