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When he heard about it, the conquistador Hernán Cortés ordered Gonzalo de Sandoval to destroy the town in revenge in early 1521. Conquistadors sacrificed and eaten by Aztec-era people ...

Gonzalo de Sandoval, Cortes' Right-Hand Man . Gonzalo de Sandoval was barely 20 years old and without military experience when he signed on with the Cortes expedition in 1518. He soon showed great skill at arms, loyalty, and the ability to lead men, and Cortes promoted him. By the time the Spanish were masters of Tenochtitlan, Sandoval had ...

Sandoval led men and exhibited personal bravery in a manner that marked him as Cortés most dependable captain. After the fall of the Aztec capital, with Cortés immersed in administration, Sandoval became the most reliable executor of his commander’s policies, founding a town here, quelling a rebellion there, extending Spanish dominion ...

Gonzalo de Sandoval ( Medellín 1497, - Niebla 1528) fue un conquistador español de Nueva España ( México ). Era hijo de Juan de Sandoval. Pasó a Cuba, donde permanecía como capitán en 1518. El año siguiente inició la conquista de México con su primo Hernán Cortés. Durante algún tiempo fue cogobernador de la colonia mientras Cortés ...

Gonzalo de Sandoval. Sandoval, Gonzalo de. Medellín (Badajoz), 1497 – Palos de la Frontera (Huelva), 1528. Conquistador, capitán en la expedición de Hernán Cortés a México, aguacil y justicia mayor. Siendo apenas un adolescente embarcó hacia las Indias en busca de fortuna.

Gonzalo de Sandoval (1497, Medellín, Spain – late in 1528, Palos de la Frontera, Spain) was a Spanish conquistador in New Spain (Mexico):50 and briefly co-governor of the colony while Hernán Cortés was away from the capital (March 2, 1527 to August 22, 1527).

There was none he trusted more than Gonzalo de Sandoval, who was barely 22 when he joined the expedition. Time and again, when Cortés was in a pinch, he turned to Sandoval. After destroying the empire, Sandoval took land and gold for himself but died young of an illness.

A relief sculpture depicting the conquistador Gonzalo de Sandoval recieving a gift from the king of Colima, Mexico in 1521. Surfer looking at a swell on the beach as hurricane John makes its way ...