{"product_id":"the-true-history-of-the-conquest-of-new-spain-paperback-9781108017053","title":"The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108017053","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe True History of the Conquest of New Spain\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico (1519–1522); in this volume foot soldier Díaz joins Cortés' army.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBernal Díaz del Castillo (Author), Genaro García (Edited by), Alfred Percival Maudslay (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108017053, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 August 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e516 pages, 6 b\/w illus.  1 colour illus.  1 map\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.9 cm, 0.65 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBernal Díaz del Castillo (1492–1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés, and participated in the campaigns that led to the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521. This 1928 translation of his journals derives from the 1904 edition by the Mexican historian Genaro García - the first edition based on the original manuscript. Written as a corrective to accounts that overemphasised Cortés' exploits, Díaz's epic focuses on the experiences of the common soldier. The most complete contemporary chronicle of the Mexican conquest, this important historical document is also a captivating adventure narrative that combines factual accuracy with many dramatic anecdotes. Volume 1, in which Díaz recounts his first two expeditions to the Yucatán coast and the beginning of his service in Cortés' army, contains chapters 1–81 and includes part of García's 1904 introduction to his edition.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eExtracts from Introduction Señor Don Genaro García\u003cbr\u003e Bernal Díaz del Castillo - his life\u003cbr\u003e Introduction by the translator\u003cbr\u003e Note on spelling, etc.\u003cbr\u003e Itinerary\u003cbr\u003e Preface by the author\u003cbr\u003e Book I. The Discovery: 1. The beginning of the story\u003cbr\u003e 2. How we discovered the province of Yutacan\u003cbr\u003e 3. How we coasted along towards the west\u003cbr\u003e 4. Concerning the attack made on us\u003cbr\u003e 5. How we agreed to return to the Island of Cuba\u003cbr\u003e 6. How twenty of us soldiers went ashore in the Bay of Florida\u003cbr\u003e 7. About the hardships which I endured on the way to a town called Trinidad\u003cbr\u003e 8. How Diego Velásquez, Governor of the Island of Cuba, ordered another fleet\u003cbr\u003e 9. How we followed the same course\u003cbr\u003e 10. How we went on our way and entered a large and broad river\u003cbr\u003e 11. How we arrived at the Rio de Tabasco\u003cbr\u003e 12. How we followed along the coast\u003cbr\u003e 13. How we arrived at the Rio de Banderas\u003cbr\u003e 14. How we arrived at the Island now called San Juan de Ulúa\u003cbr\u003e 15. How Diego Velásquez, the Governor of Cuba, sent a ship in search of us\u003cbr\u003e 16. How we went on exploring the coast\u003cbr\u003e Book II. The Expedition under Hernando Cortés. The Voyage: 17. How Diego Velásquez sent to Spain\u003cbr\u003e 18. Concerning some errors and other things written by the historians Gomara and Yllescas\u003cbr\u003e 19. How we came again with another fleet\u003cbr\u003e 20. How Cortés prepared and continued the arrangements necessary\u003cbr\u003e 21. What Cortés did when he arrived at the town of Trinidad\u003cbr\u003e 22. How the Governor Diego Velásquez sent two of his servants post haste to the Town of Trinidad\u003cbr\u003e 23. How the Captain Hernando Cortés with all the sailors sailed along the south coast to the Port of Havana\u003cbr\u003e 24. How Diego Velásquez sent a servant with orders that Cortés should be arrested\u003cbr\u003e 25. How Cortés set sail for the Island of Cuba\u003cbr\u003e 26. How Cortés reviewed all his army\u003cbr\u003e 27. How Cortés came to know that the Indians of Cape Catoche held two Spaniards in captivity\u003cbr\u003e 28. How Cortés allotted the ships and appointed captains\u003cbr\u003e 29. How the Spaniard named Jerónimo de Aguilar, heard that we had returned to Cozumel\u003cbr\u003e 30. How we again embarked and made sail for the Rio de Grijalva\u003cbr\u003e 31. How we arrived at the Rio de Grijalva\u003cbr\u003e 32. How Cortés ordered two of his captains to examine the country further inland\u003cbr\u003e 33. How Cortés told us all to get ready by the next day to go in search of the Indian host\u003cbr\u003e 34. How all the Caciques of Tabasco and its dependencies attacked us\u003cbr\u003e 35. How Cortés sent to summon all the Caciques of those Provinces\u003cbr\u003e 36. How all the Caciques and Calchonis from the Rio de Grijalva came and brought a present\u003cbr\u003e 37. Showing that Doña Marina was a Cacica\u003cbr\u003e Book III. The March Inland: 38. How we arrived with all the ships at San Juan de Ulúa\u003cbr\u003e 39. How Tendile went to report to his Prince Montezuma\u003cbr\u003e 40. How Cortés sent to look for another harbour and site\u003cbr\u003e 41. What was done about the bartering for gold\u003cbr\u003e 42. How we raised Hernando Cortés to the post of Captain General and Chief Justice\u003cbr\u003e 43. How the party of Diego Velásquez tried to upset the powers we had given to Cortés\u003cbr\u003e 44. How it was arranged to send Pedro de Alvarado inland to look for maize\u003cbr\u003e 45. How we entered Cempoala\u003cbr\u003e 46. How we entered Quiahuitztlan\u003cbr\u003e 47. How Cortés ordered the five tax gatherers of Montezuma to be taken prisoners\u003cbr\u003e 48. How we determined to found “La Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz”\u003cbr\u003e 49. How the fat cacique and other chieftains came to complain to Cortés\u003cbr\u003e 50. How certain soldiers wished to return to the Island of Cuba\u003cbr\u003e 51. What happened to us at Cingapacinga\u003cbr\u003e 52. How Cortés had an altar made and eight Indian damsels were baptized\u003cbr\u003e 53. How we returned to Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz\u003cbr\u003e 54. The narrative and letter which we sent to His Majesty by our proctors\u003cbr\u003e 55. How Diego Velásquez learned that we were sending proctors with an embassy and presents to our King\u003cbr\u003e 56. How our proctors passed through the Bahama Channel\u003cbr\u003e 57. What was done in camp and the judgment which Cortés delivered\u003cbr\u003e 58. 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