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Cortez

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Noun1.Cortez - Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)Cortez - Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)
Cortes, Hernan Cortes, Hernan Cortez, Hernando Cortes, Hernando Cortez
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But I doubt whether our conquests in the countries I treat of would be as easy as those of Ferdinando Cortez over the naked Americans.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
It came into my mind in the nick of time, how Columbus, or Cortez, or one of those people, played an eclipse as a saving trump once, on some savages, and I saw my chance.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
The class of power, the working heroes, the Cortez, the Nelson, the Napoleon, see that this is the festivity and permanent celebration of such as they; that fashion is funded talent; is Mexico, Marengo, and Trafalgar beaten out thin; that the brilliant names of fashion run back to just such busy names as their own, fifty or sixty years ago.
Essays, Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
 
 
 
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