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.
Princess Cruz January 19, 2010 Mr. Deneen 4th Block Hernando Cortez Born in Medellin, Extremadura, Cortez lived through the years 1485-1547. He studied law at the University of Salamanca but decided to try his luck with the Americas in 1501. During 1518, he went and served under the governor of Cuba. With the governor's permission, he organized a crew to accompany him to Mexico. Just before he left for Mexico, Governor Velazquez revoked Cortez's commission because he feared that Cortez would not recognize his authority once in Mexico.
Eventually people started moving to America in hopes of catching a glimpse of the Cosa del Pantano, or “Swamp Thing.” Over the 500 years since it was first told, the story of the Swamp Thing has been transformed many times into many different versions. Some people claim that the first Spanish explorer to see the beast was actually Swamp Thing himself, mutated by the stagnant swamp waters. Others believe it was all a hoax, told only to lure people into moving to a desolate waste area. Whatever the case, the urban legend of the
1. Fernando Cortes was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire. In his First Letter to King Charles I of Spain dating to July 10, 1519, Fernando Cortes provided a detailed account of his activities in Mexico. He described the country as rich in resources and its native people as savage barbarians who sacrifice their own persons for their idols. Cortes wrote that in the short time they explored the lands, the expedition has discovered that everything that King Solomon brought for the Temple existed in this country.
Journal 1 By Aryan Study Guide PAGE 88 Comprehension 1 Cabeza De Vaca was a Spanish nobleman who set out on an expedition to the Gulf Coast in the 16th century. His sparkling career was cut short when his ships got wrecked off the coast of present day Texas and he found himself enslaved by the Han and Capoque clans of the Karankawa Indians. This passage talks about how he survived among the Native American groups and the skills and strategies he used to fit in. The first thing that Cabeza De Vaca did to assimilate with the Native American culture was to learn their language. This was a pivotal step because without being able to express himself he would never have been able to free himself from slavery.
Some historians believe the islands were visited and used by groups of Incas as early as a century prior to de Berlanga's discovery, but this has never been proven. In 1570, mapmaker Abraham Ortelius plotted the Galapagos Islands, calling them the Isolas de Galapagos, or "Islands of the Tortoises," based on sailors' descriptions of the many tortoises inhabiting the islands. By the 17th century, the Galapagos Islands became a popular hideout for British buccaneers who pirated Spanish ships and looted Spanish settlements in Central and South America. These buccaneers and British whalers used the islands as a source of food on long journeys. The islands, still uninhabited on a permanent basis by man and, hence, shrouded in mystery, soon came to be known as the Enchanted Islands because they disappeared into the fog at certain times of year and could not be seen by passing ships.
Squanto, also called Tisquantum, was an Native American interpreter and guide for Pilgrims in the New World. Thomas Hunt kidnapped Squanto and brought him to Spain to be sold into slavery. Squanto escaped to England and returned home in 1619, he found that all of his people had been wiped out by disease. Fluent in English, he became a member of the Plymouth colony and served as a guide. Squanto was born into the Pawtuxet people who occupied lands in present-day Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
The Cruel ways of the Spaniards In “A Brief Account of the Destruction,” Bartolome Las Casas vividly describes how the Spaniards first came to the new world and ended up destroying nearly all the native populations of the Caribbean and Mexico. Bartolome Las Casas was a Spanish priest, social reformer, and historian. He is known as the principal organizer and champion of the 16th-century movement in Spain and Spanish America in defense of the Indians. In 1502, Las Casas sailed to Espanola in the expedition of Governor Nicolas de Ovando. While in the West Indies, he participated in Indian wars and acquired land and slaves.
He came with over 200 settlers, horses, tools, and seeds expecting set up a farming colony. As they move towards the inland, the Calusa ambushed them. Ponce de León was shot by a poisoned arrow and was terribly wounded. The settlers decided to retreat from the settlement and sail back to Cuba. That wound caused Ponce de León to die at the age of 61 in Cuba.
“The first was a punitive excursion led by Andrew Jackson. The second war was part of the devastating Indian removals. The final war was an attempt to remove the last remnants of the Seminoles from their homes in the Everglades” (Missall