Product Description: Bernal Díaz del Castillo nació en Medina del Campo, en 1495, y murió en Guatemala. Hijo de Francisco Díaz del Castillo, regidor de su ciudad natal, y de María Díez Rejón. Viajó a América acompañado de Pedrarias Dávila y estuvo en las expediciones de Francisco Hernández de Córdoba y Juan de Grijalva...read more

Product Description: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process...read more

Product Description: Bernal Díaz del Castillo(1495–1584) served under Cortés through the entire Mexican campaign, and his narrative, one of only four extant firsthand accounts, is both an invaluable hirstorical document and a spectacular epic. He was with Cortés when the latter sank the ships, thus committing the small band of conquistadors irrevocably to the Conquest; he was privy to the counsels of the leaders and was at hand when Montezuma was made a prisoner in his own palace...read more

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