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Francisco Hernández de Córdoba ( Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko eɾˈnandeθ ðe ˈkoɾðoβa]; c. 1467 in Córdoba – 1517 in Sancti Spíritus) was a Spanish conquistador, known to history mainly for the ill-fated expedition he led in 1517, in the course of which the first European accounts of the Yucatán Peninsula were compiled.
The first European to visit Mexican territory was Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba, who arrived in Yucatan from Cuba with three ships and about 100 men in early 1517.
In 1517, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba set sail from Cuba with a small fleet. The expedition sailed west from Cuba for three weeks before sighting the northeastern tip of the Yucatán Peninsula. The ships could not put in close to the shore due to the coastal shallows. However, they could see a Maya city some two leagues inland.
The Conquistador s, meaning "conquerors", were Iberian military adventurers who operated as the vanguard of empires in the 15th and 16th centuries by exploring areas of the world unknown to Europeans, defeating indigenous armies, and then distributing loot and land. By the mid-16th century, conquistadors had been replaced by a more systematic ...
In 1517, while on an expedition to procure slaves, a Spanish conquistador named Francisco Hernández de Córdova arrived on the Peninsula and asked some of the indigenous people where he was. When ...
The petition was accepted and in 1517 Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba sailed west in three ships with 110 men on Feb 8. On March 4, after surviving a fierce storm, they sighted the coast of the Yucatan and saw the Mayan stone buildings .The Spaniards called all non Christian cultures Moslem and named the city El gran Cairo. Cordoba and his men ...
Mexico marked the anniversary of the first serious defeat suffered by Spanish conquistadores on Mexican soil Thursday, amid the 500th anniversary commemorations of the 1519-1521 Conquest. The March 25, 1517 battle of Champotón actually pre-dated the arrival of conquistador Hernán Cortés two years later. The 1517 expedition led by Francisco Hernandez de Córdoba sailed around the Yucatán ...
Francisco Fernández (Hernández) de Córdoba ( b. ca. 1475; d. June 1526), conqueror of Nicaragua. (not to be confused with Francisco Hernández De Córdoba [ d. 1518], a conquistador of the Yucatán.) Fernández de Córdoba was a Spanish soldier of fortune who came to Panama sometime between 1514 and 1517. In the service of Pedro Arias de ...
Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Yucatán conquistador):"There were two Spanish conquistador s at the start of the 16th century named Francisco Hernández de Córdoba.The one described here is the generally credited as the first European to discover the peninsula of Yucatán.
The first expedition was formed at the beginning of 1517. Commanded by Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, it was composed of three ships and 110 men from Tierra Firme, Santo Domingo, and Cuba. Most of them had no money, and joined forces to explore and raid the West Indies. 9 A fleet of three caravels and one brigantine comprised the second ...