To: Thermalseeker
Cortez’s conquest of Mexico remains one of the most amazing stories in World History.
To: GeorgefromGeorgia
Cortez’s conquest of Mexico remains one of the most amazing stories in World History. But, but, but the "reconquista" movement in the Southwest claims the USA stole territory from Mexicans.......
8 posted on
08/30/2007 6:41:25 AM PDT by
Thermalseeker
(Made in China: Treat those three words like a warning label)
To: GeorgefromGeorgia
These cannons are from the 1700’s. Age of pirates, not Cortez.
12 posted on
08/30/2007 9:56:38 AM PDT by
LexBaird
(Tyrannosaurus Lex, unapologetic carnivore)
To: GeorgefromGeorgia
From Veracruz (”True Cross”) to Tenochtitlan. Couldn’t have done it, however, without the support of the tribes that had been subjugated by the Mexica (mistakenly named “Aztecas” by a priest).
18 posted on
08/30/2007 3:21:56 PM PDT by
Clemenza
(Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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