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Essential Histories are remarkably effective in presenting military events in the wider contexts of the new military history.
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The Spanish conquest of Mexico was the greatest military expedition in history, and in achieving it, Hernan Cortes proved himself as one of the foremost generals of all time. This book explains the background both of the Aztec Empire and the Spanish presence in Mexico. It describes the lives of the Aztecs in their glittering capital and of the Europeans as they learned to adapt and survive in an alien and often dangerous world. The invasion was a war between civilizations, pitting the fatalism and obsessive ritual of the Aztecs against soldiers fighting for riches, their lives, and eventually their souls.
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Essential Histories are remarkably effective in presenting military events in the wider contexts of the new military history.
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The Spanish conquest of Mexico was the greatest military expedition in history, and in achieving it, Hernan Cortes proved himself as one of the foremost generals of all time. This book explains the background both of the Aztec Empire and the Spanish presence in Mexico. It describes the lives of the Aztecs in their glittering capital and of the Europeans as they learned to adapt and survive in an alien and often dangerous world. The invasion was a war between civilizations, pitting the fatalism and obsessive ritual of the Aztecs against soldiers fighting for riches, their lives, and eventually their souls.
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At the beginning of the 16th century Spain had only recently emerged from almost eight centuries of civil wars collectively called the Reconquista (Reconquest) or the Moorish Wars, when the northern kingdoms of the Iberian peninsula, Castile and Aragon, fought to recover the land conquered by the Moors in the 8th century. Read the first page
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At the beginning of the 16th century Spain had only recently emerged from almost eight centuries of civil wars collectively called the Reconquista (Reconquest) or the Moorish Wars, when the northern kingdoms of the Iberian peninsula, Castile and Aragon, fought to recover the land conquered by the Moors in the 8th century. Read the first page
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