“In my opinion, it seems that God is Spanish to work so great a miracle [for them]. Five thousand Spaniards who were also five thousand soldiers […] and five thousand...
Spanish History
Once the unsuspecting natives gathered in a courtyard, Cortés ordered his men “to slaughter them all as quietly as possible.” As soon as this was done, the Spaniards rushed into...
‘The indigenous warriors engaged us from three angles: some positioned on the slopes, others stationed across the river, and the remainder within the town…. The Inca himself held fort within...
It was a common belief among the ranks of the 780 surviving “Soldados” and 60 “Caballeros” that the bulk of the gold had flown away, and indeed a year earlier,...
With Franco’s Army of Africa just 115 kilometers from Madrid in the summer of 1936, the Republican leadership decided to hide the country’s gold reserves, the fourth largest in the...
The “Huey Tzompantli” was the colossal skull rack located in the central square of Tenochtitlan, in front of the giant temple of Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc. It was an immense construction,...
“In my opinion, it seems that God is Spanish to work so great a miracle [for them]. Five thousand Spaniards who were also five thousand soldiers […] and five thousand...
Once the unsuspecting natives gathered in a courtyard, Cortés ordered his men “to slaughter them all as quietly as possible.” As soon as this was done, the Spaniards rushed into...
‘The indigenous warriors engaged us from three angles: some positioned on the slopes, others stationed across the river, and the remainder within the town…. The Inca himself held fort within...
It was a common belief among the ranks of the 780 surviving “Soldados” and 60 “Caballeros” that the bulk of the gold had flown away, and indeed a year earlier,...
With Franco’s Army of Africa just 115 kilometers from Madrid in the summer of 1936, the Republican leadership decided to hide the country’s gold reserves, the fourth largest in the...
The “Huey Tzompantli” was the colossal skull rack located in the central square of Tenochtitlan, in front of the giant temple of Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc. It was an immense construction,...