GREAT ADVENTURES HERNÁN CORTÉS
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OFF TO CONQUER THE (NEW) WORLD Cortés leads his troops into battle, raining fire and fury down on the Aztec capital
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While growing up a sickly child in the village of Medellín, Spain, Hernán Cortés’s mind was filled with stories of Christopher Columbus and his discoveries in the New World.