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Historical person
1485–1547
Hernán Cortés was the Spanish conquistador who led the expedition that overthrew the Aztec Empire between 1519 and 1521. His victory depended on Indigenous allies, interpreters such as Malinche, epidemic disease and the siege of Tenochtitlan, after which he became a leading figure in colonial New Spain.
In Manolo Palomares’s Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico, in 1519, Hernán Cortés lands on the coast of Mexico with a small expedition whose ambitions exceed the authority granted to it. In Colin Falconer’s Feathered Serpent, in 1519 Hernán Cortés lands on the coast of Mexico with a small Spanish force and an ambition far greater than his authority. Other novels featuring Hernán Cortés include Gary Jennings’s Gary Jennings’ the 2012 Codex, Gary Jennings’s Aztec Revenge, and Manolo Palomares’s Mestizo.
Historical context
Series
The Aztec sequence follows Indigenous and mixed-ancestry protagonists through five centuries of Mexican history, from the height of Tenochtitlan to the wars that ended Spanish rule. The first novel gives Mixtli’s account of the empire under Ahuitzotl and Moctezuma II and carries his life into the conquest. Later…
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Epic Historical Adventure is Colin Falconer's publisher-defined collection of stand-alone historical thrillers rather than a continuous narrative sequence. The novels range from Alexander the Great, Cleopatra and the Mongol Empire to the Ottoman court, the conquest of Mexico, colonial India, shipwreck and twentieth-century Palestine. Most volumes can be…
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