On the eighth day of the attack, a band of 32 volunteers from Gonzales arrived, carrying the amount of shields to almost two hundred. Legend holds that with the likelihood of extra help blurring, Colonel Travis drew a line on the ground and asked any man eager to stay and battle to venture over — all with the exception of one did. As the safeguards saw it, the Alamo was
But rather than waiting on being attacked, Cortes determined to anticipate them. He had some of the city lords called saying that he wished to speak to them and shut them in the chamber by themselves. After the five hour firing to some houses and towers where natives defended themselves, Cortes and his army with the help of Tascaltecal and Cempoal natives, forced all the people out of the city. 3. After evaluating Cortes letter to the king, I believe that it is subjective towards the Native American civilization.
Along with about 600 native associates, the Spaniards set up base in one of the Aztec's many ceremonial temples. During all these events, Governor Velazquez sent a fleet under soldier Panfilo de Narvaez to Mexico. Cortez knew of this and marched with a small group to the coast where he captured Panfilo de Narvaez, and persuaded most of the soldiers to join his band. When they returned to Tenochtitlan, an Aztec revolt had progressed too far. Montezuma died from a stoning three days after asking the Aztec people to calm down.
The Battle of the Alamo took place between February 23 and March 6, 1836. The battle consisted of a thirteen day siege proceeding an all out attack from the Alamo Mission near what is now San Antonio, Texas. The battle left an estimated 300 of the Mexican forces killed or wounded and just two of the Republic of Texas surviving. I believe that this battle really helped to cement the idea of secession into the minds of the Texians and pushed them to revolt. President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the president of Mexico at the time, started to move the governmental system of Mexico towards a dictatorship.
Cabrillo hoped to find a wealthy city know as Cibola, and somewhere in the Pacific coast, and a connecting route to the Northwest Passage. The expedition sailed out of the port of Navidad, on June 1542 and brought with him a crew of sailors, soldiers, and Indians in three ships. By the end of the month Cabrillo passed Baja Point and entered uncharted waters, where no Spanish ships gone before. On the 28th of September he landed on an island which he named San Salvador, after his flagship. They reached as far north as the Russian River before the autumn storms forced them to turn back to San Salvador on November 23, 1542.
Millions of natives in the New World died due to European illness making it easier for the Spanish Conquistadors to move in and take over much of the Americas. Balboa in 1513 discovers the Ithsmas of Panama and becomes the first European to set eyes on the Pacific Ocean from the east. The explorations to the new world continued and 1519-1522- Magellan sailed around the world proving that Columbus did not find
After a short stint in prison Castro was released into exile in Mexico. While in Mexico Castro gathered a group of 82 other revolutionaries and began to plan another landing into Cuba. On December 2, 1956 Castro and his 82 companions landed near the Sierra Maestra Mountains in Cuba (7). His numbers were soon reduced by attacks by the troops of Cuba’s US backed dictator Batista (7). Cuba and his remaining followers fled to the mountains were his numbers grew bolstered by peasants and defecting soldiers who joined his guerrilla army.
On the night of January 8th, Deslondes gathered his men, and carried out his plan for the revolt, the first attack was plantation home of Manuel Andry. Upon entering Andry’s home, Deslondes and the twenty-five slave rebels stormed into Andry’s room killing his son, Gilbert Andry, only wounding Manuel who escaped. Deslondes decided that it would be fruitless to send men chasing after Manuel, and with his ambitions greater than killing one planter he allowed Manuel Andry to escape, believing Andry posed little threat to his slave army. The rebel army grew quickly between 100 to 500 slaves from plantation to plantation, invading planters homes, killing them and stealing guns and
After years he became the leader and was chased into the jungle near the Vietnamese border by the royal family. Here he united a lot of farmers to work as an army called the red Khmer. With this army he overwhelmed the palace and gave everybody living in the capital Phnom Penh 48 hours to leave the city. Whoever didn’t leave the city received the death penalty. In addition to this he tried to kill every doctor and teacher or other persons that are more educated than other.
Ibn Battuta traveled through Egypt, Syria, Turkey, and Russia before he arrived in Delhi; where he served as a qadi for the sultan for eight years. During his eighth year, the sultan set Battuta off for China, where he would serve as the sultan’s ambassador. Unfortunately, soon after Ibn Battuta left for China he was kidnapped and kept hostage by Indians, Ibn Battuta narrowly escaped death with the kind assistance of a young man that took pity on him. Upon his escape he arrived in the wilderness by eating roots and nuts until he finally rejoined his group in Calicut. Reunited with his entourage Ibn Battuta arrived in Zaytun, China where he declared that “there is no