Spaniards Hunting (Panamanian) Indians

Spaniards hunting Indians.
Publisher: [published 1858]
Edition/Format: Image : Graphic : Original artwork : Picture : No Linguistic Content
Summary:
Soldiers under command of officers of Don Pedro de Avila chasing and killing Indians, 1519.

Hernan Cortes slaying the Aztecs, and conquering Mexico.

This is an image of Spaniard, Hernan Cortes slaying the Aztecs, and conquering Mexico.

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Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortez, (1485-1547), circa 1500.
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Hernando Cortés and the Spanish Soldiers Confront the Indians.

In Fray Diego Durán. La Historia antigua de la Nueva España. 1585 [Manuscript facsimile, ca. nineteenth century]. The fierce confrontation between the Spaniards under Cortés and the followers of Moctezuma received full treatment in Father's Durán's illustrated history of Mexico, compiled shortly after the early sixteenth-century conquest. The Mexica (Aztec) peoples confronted a powerful Spanish force supplemented by a sizable number of allies from the area surrounding Tenochtitlán [later named Mexico City] during the 1519-1521 campaigns. Durán's informants have skillfully distinguished Indian peoples from the European invaders, with a ghostly white image representing the Spanish. The Library of Congress acquired this extremely rare facsimile manuscript in the Peter Force Collection purchase in 1867. (Peter Force Collection, Manuscript Division)