Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Hernando Cortes

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Last updated on November 24, 2024.

Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess 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 what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

1485 - December 2, 1547

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Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.

Hernando Cortes

So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound.

Hernando Cortes

What men in all the world have shown such daring?

Hernando Cortes

I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.

Hernando Cortes

For I assure Your Majesty that if God had not mysteriously assisted us and the victory had gone to Narváez, it would have been the greatest harm that Spaniards had done to each other for a long time past.

Hernando Cortes

It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before.

Hernando Cortes

They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us.

Hernando Cortes

Chocolate is the divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day without food.

Hernando Cortes

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Hernando Cortes

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