{"product_id":"the-true-history-of-the-conquest-of-new-spain-paperback-9781108017084","title":"The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108017084","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); this volume focuses on the fall of Mexico in 1521.\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\"\u003e9781108017084, 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\"\u003e424 pages, 2 b\/w illus.  1 colour illus.  2 maps\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.54 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 includes the experiences of the common soldier: hardship, thirst, long marches and unexpected attacks by rebels. The most complete contemporary chronicle of the Mexican conquest, this important historical document is also a captivating adventure narrative that combines factual accuracy with many dramatic anecdotes. This volume, containing chapters 137–173, describes the fall of Mexico. An appendix prepared by the editor provides a timeline of the 1521 siege based on both Díaz's and Cortés' accounts of the event.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eBook X. The Return to the Valley: 137. How we marched with all our army on the way to the city of Texcoco\u003cbr\u003e 138. How we went to Iztapalapa with Cortés\u003cbr\u003e 139. How three pueblo in the neighbourhood of Texcoco sent to ask for peace and pardon\u003cbr\u003e 140. How Gonzalo de Sandoval went to Tlaxcala to fetch the timber for the launches\u003cbr\u003e Book XI. Preliminary Expeditions: 141. How our captain Cortés went on an expedition to the peublo of Saltocan\u003cbr\u003e 142. How Captain Gonzalo de Sandoval went to Chalco and Tlamanalco with the whole of his army\u003cbr\u003e 143. How the slaves were branded in Texcoco\u003cbr\u003e 144. How our Captain Cortés went on an expedition\u003cbr\u003e 145. About the great thirst that we endured on the march\u003cbr\u003e 146. How when we arrived at Texcoco it had been settled among certain of those persons who came with Narvaez to kill Cortés\u003cbr\u003e Book XII. The Siege and Fall of Mexico: 147. How Cortés ordered all the pueblos which were friendly to us in the neighbourhood of Texcoco to make a store of arrows\u003cbr\u003e 148. How a review was held in the city of Texcoco\u003cbr\u003e 149. How Cortés sought the rowers who were needed to row the launches\u003cbr\u003e 150. How Cortés ordered three divisions to go and invest the great city of Mexico\u003cbr\u003e 151. How Cortés ordered the twelve launches to be stationed\u003cbr\u003e 152. About the battles and encounters that we went through\u003cbr\u003e 153. About the way in which we fought, and the many attacks that the Mexicans made on us\u003cbr\u003e 154. How Cortés sent three Mexican chieftains to beg Guatemoc to make peace\u003cbr\u003e 155. How Guatemoc had arranged with the provinces of Matalzingo and Tulapa and Malinalco and other pueblos to come to his assistance\u003cbr\u003e 156. How Gonzalo de Sandoval with twelve launches entered into the part of the city where Guatemoc was and took him provinces\u003cbr\u003e 157. What Cortés ordered to be done\u003cbr\u003e Book XIII. The Settlement: 158. How letters reached Cortés that a certain Cristobál de Tápia had arrived at the Port of Vera Cruz\u003cbr\u003e 159. How Cortés and the King's officers decided to send to His Majesty all the gold that had accrued\u003cbr\u003e 160. How Gonzalo de Sandoval arrived with his army at a pueblo called Tuxtepec\u003cbr\u003e 161. How Pedro de Alvarado went to Tututepec to found a town\u003cbr\u003e 162. How Francisco de Garay came from Jamaica\u003cbr\u003e 163. How the Licentiate Alonzo de Zuazo came in a caravel to New Spain\u003cbr\u003e 164. How Cortés sent Pedro de Alvarado to the province of Guatemala\u003cbr\u003e 165. How Cortés sent a fleet to pacify and conquer the provinces of Higueras and Honduras\u003cbr\u003e 166. How those of us who had settled at Coatzacoalcos were constantly going about pacifying the provinces which revolted against us\u003cbr\u003e 167. How our proctors who were in Spain challenged the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Burgos\u003cbr\u003e 168. How Pánfilo de Narvaez and Cristobál de Tápia and a pilot named Gonzalo de Umbria, and another soldier named Cárdenas appeared before His Majesty\u003cbr\u003e 169. What Cortés was engaged upon after he was invested with the government of New Spain\u003cbr\u003e 170. How Captain Hernando Cortés sent to Castile to His Majesty eighty thousand pesos in gold and silver\u003cbr\u003e 171. How there came to the Port of Vera Cruz twelve Franciscan Friars\u003cbr\u003e 172. How Cortés wrote to His Majesty and sent him thirty thousand pesos de oro\u003cbr\u003e 173. How when Cortés learnt that Cristobál de Olid had rebelled he sent against him a captain named Francisco de Las Casas\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of the Americas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of the Americas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20the%20Americas%20%5BHBJK%5D%22\"\u003eHBJK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913001984280,"sku":"9781108017084","price":35.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108017084i.jpg?v=1694869424","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-true-history-of-the-conquest-of-new-spain-paperback-9781108017084","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}