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Bernal Díaz del Castillo, (born c. 1495, Medina del Campo, Castile [Spain]—died 1584, Guatemala City, Guatemala), Spanish soldier and author, who took part in the conquest of Mexico. In 1514 he visited Cuba and five years later accompanied Hernán Cortés to Mexico. In protest against the academic chronicles of sedentary historians, he wrote his Historia verdadera de la conquista de la ...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo was born in 1492, the year Columbus sailed across the Atlantic. He joined Hernán Cortés on his expedition to Mexico and was with him as he marched on Tenochtitlan. At the age of seventy, he began to write his True History of the Conquest of New Spain. His intention was to remind the King of Spain of the heroism of ...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo was born in Medina del Campo of a respectable although not distinguished family. He was enchanted by tales of the fortunes to be found in newly discovered America, and in 1514 he left for the New World in the entourage of Pedrarias, who had been appointed governor of Castilla del Oro (the Isthmus of Panama and adjacent ...

In the colonial history of Latin America, it is a military account which historian J.M. Cohen states that Bernal Díaz del Castillo is “among chroniclers what Daniel Defoe is among novelists”. Late in life, when Díaz del Castillo was in his 60s, he finished his first-person account of the Spanish conquest of the West Indies and the Aztec ...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo. Teresa Díaz de Padilla. Bernal Díaz del Castillo ( Medina del Campo, 1496- Santiago de Guatemala, 3 de febrero de 1584) fue un conquistador español que participó en la conquista de México y fue más tarde regidor de Santiago de Guatemala. Se le atribuye la autoría de la Historia verdadera de la conquista de la ...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo. Publication date 2016 Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0 Topics historia de América, Conquista Collection folkscanomy_history; folkscanomy; additional_collections Language Spanish. edición digital ePubLibre, 2016. Ed. original 1632 Addeddate 2021-07-17 21:51:53 Identifier

Bernal Díaz Del Castillo (Medina del Campo, Valladolid, h. 1492 - Guatemala, h. 1585) Conquistador y cronista español. Desde joven se decidió por la carrera de las armas y, debido a su afán de aventuras, hacia 1514 se embarcó a América viajando sucesivamente con las expediciones de Pedro Arias de Ávila (a Darién, o sea Centroamérica), Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (a Yucatán) y ...

Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, 1496-1584; Lockhart, John Ingram. Publication date 1844 Topics Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547, Mexico -- History Publisher London : J. Hatchard Collection robarts; toronto Digitizing sponsor MSN Contributor Robarts - University of Toronto Language English Volume 1.