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‘A True Account of the Conquest of New Spain’: Chicanery, adventures and plunder recounted by a soldier-writer

Bernal Díaz del Castillo, who took Tenochtitlán with Hernán Cortés, wrote a classic chronicle offering his version of the conquest. It is now published adapted and in modern Spanish

‘A True Account of the Conquest of New Spain’: Chicanery, adventures and plunder recounted by a soldier-writer

We haven't written up this one. El Pais English has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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