There he saw " the things which have been sent to the king from the golden land "— the Aztec treasure that Hernán Cortés had sent home to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V following the fall of Mexico.

While the expedition was stopped in the Chontal Maya capital of Itzamkanac, known as Acalan in Nahuatl, Cortés had Cuauhtémoc executed for allegedly conspiring to kill him and the other Spaniards.

Cortés interrogated them until each confessed, and then had Cuauhtémoc, Tetlepanquetzal, and another lord named Tlacatlec hanged.

Cortés wrote that the other lords would be too frightened to plot against him again, as they believed he had uncovered the plan through magic powers.

According to Ixtlilxóchitl the three lords were joking cheerfully with each other, due to a rumor that Cortés had decided to return the expedition to Mexico, when Cortés asked a spy to tell him what they were talking about.

He sailed first to Cuba, to pick up supplies Cortés had arranged for him, where Governor Velázquez convinced him to go and claim the colony he was to found as his own.

In the meantime, Cortés had marched overland from Mexico to Honduras, arriving in 1525.

The long-fragmented conservatives had reunited in the form of the National Party of Honduras ( Partido Nacional de Honduras — PNH ), which ran as its candidate General Tiburcio Carías Andino, the governor of the department of Cortés.

Cortés had located a Spanish priest, Gerónimo de Aguilar, who had spent several years in captivity among the Maya peoples in Yucatán following a shipwreck.

If she had been trained for court life, as in Díaz's account, her loyalty to Cortés may have been dictated by the familiar pattern of marriage among native elite classes.

When Moctezuma was allegedly killed by being stoned to death by his own people " Cortés and all of us captains and soldiers wept for him, and there was no one among us that knew him and had dealings with him who did not mourn him as if he were our father, which was not surprising, since he was so good.

Although he had found no El Dorado to equal those of Hernán Cortés in Mexico and Francisco Pizarro in Peru, he was loved by his people, who lamented his passing.

A burial ground in Campeche, Mexico, suggests slaves had been brought there not long after Hernán Cortés completed the subjugation of Aztec and Mayan Mexico.

His successor, Motehcuzōma Xocoyotzin ( better known as Moctezuma II or Moctezuma, or Montezuma ), had been Hueyi Tlatoani for 17 years when the Spaniards, led by Hernándo Cortés, landed on the Gulf Coast in the spring of 1519.

The Spanish conqueror, Cortés, tells us about another place in Acalan where unmarried young women were sacrificed to a goddess in whom " they had much faith and hope ", possibly again Ix Chel.

It had been visited by Cortés on his march to Honduras in 1525, when the lords of the Itza pledged loyalty to Spain, but was thereafter neglected by Spanish authorities.

In 1539, Francisco de Ulloa, who had been commissioned by Hernán Cortés, discovered the Gulf of California and reached as far north as the 28th parallel.

General Cortés Vargas, who issued the order to shoot, argued later that he had issued the order because he had information that U. S. boats were poised to land troops on Colombian coasts to defend American personnel and the interests of the United Fruit Company.

Hernán Cortés estimated that the city had 430 temples and about 20, 000 homes in the center of the city with another 20, 000 on the periphery.

Cortés was attracted to the pastureland of the valley area, but while there was a great deal of irrigated farms, the city had a population of about 100, 000 and overpopulation meant that many poor people often lacked food.

Cortés had arrived to Cholula after the Spanish victory of the Tlaxcalans, and he was supposed to meet Moctezuma II here.

He is best remembered for his poetry, but according to accounts by his descendants and biographers, Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxochitl and Juan Bautista de Pomar, he had an experience of an " Unknown, Unknowable Lord of Everywhere " to whom he built an entirely empty temple in which no blood sacrifices of any kind were allowed — not even those of animals.

Hernán Cortés, however, in 1524, got word of Olid's insurrection and sent his cousin, Francisco de las Casas, along with several ships to Honduras to remove Olid and claim the area for Cortés.

However, both las Casas and Cortés sail back to Mexico before the end of 1525, where Francisco was arrested and sent back to Spain as a prisoner by Estrada and Alboronoz.

In July 1539, moved by the renewal of those stories, Cortés sent Francisco de Ulloa out with three small vessels.

Pedro de Alvarado was sent out by Hernán Cortés with 120 horsemen, 300 footsoldiers and several hundred Cholula and Tlaxcala auxiliaries ; he was engaged in the conquest of the highlands of Guatemala from 1523 to 1527.

Hernán Cortés sent Francisco de Orozco to Oaxaca because Moctezuma II said that the Aztec ’ s gold came from there.

Cortés sent Pedro de Alvarado, who proceeded to drive out most of the village ’ s population.

In the middle of November 1523, the Estremaduran captain Don Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras had been sent on an important mission by Hernán Cortés to discover and conquer the lands south of Mexico.

To add to Cortés ’ troubles, the Spanish governor of Cuba sent an arrest party for Cortés, as his orders were not to conquer but simply to trade.

After the fall of Tenochtitlan, Cortés sent Gonzalo de Sandoval to the conquest of the Tuxtepec garrison.

On the arrival of the Spaniards, the young chieftain sent an embassy to Hernán Cortés while he was at Tlaxcala, offering him his services and asking his aid in return.

In 1533, Fortún Ximénez, a mutineer on an exploring expedition sent by Hernán Cortés, discovered the southern portion of Baja California, around La Paz.

In 1539, Cortés sent the navigator Francisco de Ulloa northward along the Gulf and Pacific coasts of Baja California.

Ximénez was the pilot of a ship, the “ Concepción ,” sent by Hernán Cortés and captained by Diego de Becerra.

After conquering the Aztec Empire, Hernán Cortés sent expeditions to explore what he believed to be the Island of California.

In 1520, while Hernán Cortés was still trying to conquer Tenochtitlan, the Spanish sent an expedition south of the valley into this area.

In 1520, Diego Velazquez de Cuellar, the governor of Cuba, not wishing to see Cortés succeed, sent Narváez after him at the head of a large expedition of ships and Spanish troops, with instructions to bring Cortés back, dead or alive.

Caloca Cortés sent the students to flee to safety, and himself attempted to do the same, but was captured by a group of soldiers.

The news that this " island " of Yucatán had gold, doubted by Bernal but enthusiastically maintained by Julianillo, the Maya prisoner taken at the battle of Catoche, fed the subsequent series of events that was to end with the Conquest of Mexico by the third flotilla sent, that of Hernán Cortés.

European contacts with the Pericú began in the 1530s, first when Fortún Ximénez and mutineers from an expedition sent out by Hernán Cortés, the conqueror of central Mexico, reached La Paz, followed shortly afterwards by an expedition under Cortés himself ( Mathes 1973 ).