Invading Colombia: Spanish Accounts of the Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada Expedition of Conquest

by J. Michael Francis

Book Overview

In early April 1536, Gonzalo Jim?nez de Quesada led a military expedition from the coastal city of Santa Marta deep into the interior of what is today modern Colombia. With roughly eight hundred Spaniards and numerous native carriers and black slaves, the Jim?nez expedition was larger than the combined forces under Hernando Cort?s and Francisco Pizarro. Over the course of the one-year campaign, nearly three-quarters of Jim?nez's men perished, most...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271029366
• ISBN13: 9780271029368
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.5"