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Bernal Díaz del Castillo ( c. 1492 – 3 February 1584) was a Spanish conquistador who participated as a soldier in the conquest of the Aztec Empire under Hernán Cortés and late in his life wrote an account of the events. As an experienced soldier of fortune, he had already participated in expeditions to Tierra Firme, Cuba, and to Yucatán ...
2014 Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, 1496-1584 Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España / Bernal Díaz del Castillo; edición, presentación, estudio y notas de Guillermo Serés; ensayo introductorio de Miguel León-Portilla. — México: Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, 2014. 832 p. [v. I] — (Clásicos de la Lengua Española ...
Bernal Díaz del Castillo (born c. 1495, Medina del Campo, Castile [Spain]—died 1584, Guatemala City, Guatemala) was a Spanish soldier and author, who took part in the conquest of Mexico. In 1514 he visited Cuba and five years later accompanied Hernán Cortés to Mexico. In protest against the academic chronicles of sedentary historians, he ...
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Aug 26, 2022 · Definition. The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492 to c. 1580) is an account written in 1568 of the early Spanish colonization of Mesoamerica, specifically the conquest of the Aztec civilization in Mexico from 1519 to 1521 when Díaz was a member of the conquistador expedition led by Hernán Cortés (1485-1547).
- Mark Cartwright
- 'The Conquest of New Spain' was written in 1568.
- Bernal Díaz wrote 'The Conquest of New Spain' to correct errors he felt other chronicles had made and to show his own role and that of other conqui...
- Bernal Díaz del Castillo is important because he wrote a firsthand and accessible account of the conquest of Mexico in the 1520s.
OCLC. 723180350. Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España ( transl. The True History of the Conquest of New Spain) is a first-person narrative written in 1568 [1] by military adventurer, conquistador, and colonist settler Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492–1584), who served in three Mexican expeditions: those of Francisco ...
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Bernal Díaz del Castillo was born in 1492, the year Columbus sailed across the Atlantic. He joined Hernán Cortés on his expedition to Mexico and was with him as he marched on Tenochtitlan. At the age of seventy, he began to write his True History of the Conquest of New Spain. His intention was to remind the King of Spain of the heroism of ...
Bernal Díaz del Castillo ( Medina del Campo, 1496- Santiago de Guatemala, 3 de febrero de 1584) fue un conquistador español que participó en la conquista de México y fue más tarde regidor de Santiago de Guatemala. Se le atribuye la autoría de la Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España, la cual comenzó a redactar como un ...
