Hernán Cortés victorious at the Battle of Otumba, Otumba de Gómez Farías, where he defeated the Aztecs in 1520. Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca, 1485 – 1547. Spanish Conquistador, leader of an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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