Naval Power in the Conquest of Mexico

by C. Harvey Gardiner

Book Overview

In this account of the naval aspect of Hernando Cort s's invasion of the Aztec Empire, C. Harvey Gardiner has added another dimension to the drama of Spanish conquest of the New World and to Cort s himself as a military strategist. The use of ships, in the climactic moment of the Spanish-Aztec clash, which brought about the fall of Tenochtitl n and consequently of all of Mexico, though discussed briefly in former English-language accounts of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292740964
• ISBN13: 9780292740969
• Release Date: June 1956
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"