Hernan Cortes Quotes

Hernan Cortes — Spanish Leader born on December 29, 1485,

Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas... (wikipedia)

The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.

We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes.

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Hernan Cortes Quotes

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