Hernán Cortés (eBook)

Introduction, by Fernando Cervantes

Chapter 1 Prologue: The Return of Quetzalcoatl

Part I: Self-Discovery

Chapter 2 Hernán Cortés Lands in the New World

Chapter 3 The Nest of Hawks

Chapter 4 Cortés Watches Two Men Fail as Conquerors

Chapter 5 Love and Revolt in Española

Chapter 6 Cortés Watches Two More Men Fail as Conquerors

Part II : Cortés Conceives the Conquest

Chapter 7 Cortés Rises to Leadership

Chapter 8 A Portrait of the Man

Chapter 9 From Spanish Knight to Mexican God

Chapter 10 Cortés Founds Veracruz and Breaks Away from Velázquez

Chapter 11 Cortés ?Burns? His Ships

Part III: The First Conquest

Chapter 12 Victory over Tlaxcala

Chapter 13 Victory over His Own Army

Chapter 14 The Massacre of Cholula

Chapter 15 At the Gates of the City of Mexico

Chapter 16 The Meeting of the Two Worlds

Part IV: Cortés Throws Away His Conquest

Chapter 17 The Seizure of Moteçuçuma

Chapter 18 Moteçuçuma Gives Away His Sovereignty

Chapter 19 Cortés Throws Away His Conquest

Chapter 20 Narváez Comes to Avenge Velázquez

Chapter 21 The Defeat of Narváez

Part V: The Second Conquest

Chapter 22 The Massacre of Mexico

Chapter 23 The Flight from Mexico

Chapter 24 Rise after the Fall

Chapter 25 Cortés Prepares the Siege of Mexico and Enters into Legend

Chapter 26 The Siege and Fall of Mexico

Part VI: Self-Conquest

Chapter 27 The Conqueror Conquered by His Conquest

Chapter 28 Captain General and Governor of New Spain

Chapter 29 Cortés Goes to Las Hibueras and Loses Mexico

Chapter 30 The Marquess of the Valley

Chapter 31 The Marquess vs. the Viceroy

Chapter 32 Beyond the Conquest

Notes

Acknowledgments

Spelling of Names

Portraits

Bibliography

Notes to the Chapters

General Index

Special Index on Hernán Cortés

Illustrations

Frontispiece: Hernándo Cortés, from an oil painting in the Hospital de Jesus Nazarene, City of Mexico

Map of Part of Mexico, Showing the Route of Cortés from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico

Lagoon of the City of Mexico with Its Several Cities