Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, 1517-1521

Díaz del Castillo, Bernal, 1496-1584, Discovery and Conquest of Mexico, 1517-1521, Tennessee: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1956.[Two copies]

Online version.

Reviewed by By Kenneth Maxwell.

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492 – 1585)[1] was a conquistador, who wrote an eyewitness account of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards under Hernán Cortés, himself serving as a rodelero under Cortés.