Hernando Cort?s : Scrawny Goat Books : 9781647645137 : 1647645131 : 09 May 2022 : The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was perhaps one of the greatest turning points in North American history. This book relates the full story of how the Spanish adventurer Hernando Cort?s and his small group overthrew the Aztec Empire and laid the foundation for the present-day nation of Mexico. It tells of how Cort?s found his way to the New World, and, once there, drew together an alliance of a few hundred Spaniards and around 7,000 local Indian allies-all of those who had suffered at the hands of the Aztecs for countless years and who leaped at the chance to exact revenge upon their neighbors. After an initially peaceful parley into the Aztec capital-in search of gold and other riches-violence erupted and the Spaniards were nearly wiped out and forced to retreat. Outside the city, Cort?s assembled a new army, consisting of 2,000 Spaniards and around 200,000 Indian allies, and started a g