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2 days ago · Juan de Villagutierre Soto-Mayor was a Spanish colonial official who wrote the Historia de la Conquista de la Provincia de el Itza, reduccion, y progressos de la de el Lacandon, y otras naciones de indios barbaros, de la mediacion de el Reyno de Guatimala, a las provincias del Yucatan en la América Septentrional ("History of the Conquest of ...
1 day ago · Spaniards continued to expand their presence in the circum-Caribbean region with expeditions. One was by Francisco Hernández de Córdoba in 1517, another by Juan de Grijalva in 1518, which brought promising news of possibilities there. Even by the mid-1510s, the western Caribbean was largely unexplored by Spaniards.
6 days ago · Presented to you by: http://www.HistoricalConquest.comRead more on our blog at: https://www.historicalconquest.com/blogMy name is Juan de Grijalva, and today...
19 hours ago · A group of federal lawmakers including U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva have opposed the board’s call to repeal or amend the law, warning there’s a possibility that “the study’s results could be ...
1 hour ago · Updated 11:26 AM PDT, July 26, 2024. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico’s finances filed a lawsuit Friday challenging amendments to the island’s net metering law, which compensates solar-equipped households for their contributions to the grid, triggering a backlash.
3 days ago · The first contact with the Spanish came in 1518 when an expedition headed by Captain Juan de Grijalva disembarked at the mouth of the river that now bears his name. Hernán Cortés came the following year and fought the natives here at the Battle of Centla .
6 days ago · When, following Maya reports of gold inland, Cortés reached San Juan de Ulúa on April 21st., his men came into direct contact for the first time with Aztec messengers, and Doña Marina, as the Spaniards called her, began playing what was to prove an absolutely critical role in the conquest: though she couldn’t (yet) speak Spanish ...
