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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 6 | 6 | Browse | Search |
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Cortez, Hernando 1485-
Military officer; born in Medellin, Estremadura, Spain, in 1485, of a good family; studied law two years at Salamanca, and in 1504 sailed from San Lucar for Santo Domingo in a merchant vessel.
The governor received him kindly, and he was soon employed, under Diego Velasquez, in quelling a revolt.
In 1511 Diego Columbus (q. v.), governor of Santo Domingo, sent Velasquez to conquer and colonize Cuba.
Cortez accompanied him. Santiago was founded, and Cortez was made alcalde, or mayor.
He married a Spanish lady and employed the natives in mining gold, treating them most cruelly.
Velasquez placed him at the head of an expedition to conquer and colonize Mexico, portions of which Cordova and Grijalva had just discovered.
Before he sailed Velasquez countermanded the order, but the ambitious Cortez, disobedient, sailed for Mexico, in 1519, with ten vessels, bearing 550 Spaniards, over 200 Indians, a few negroes and horses, and some brass cannon.
He landed at Tob
Newfoundland.
In 1504 some adventurous French fishermen of Normandy and other coast provinces of France prosecuted their vocation off the shores of Newfoundland, in the first French vessels that ever appeared there.
Sir Humphrey Gilbert arrived at St. John's Harbor, Aug. 3, 1583, where he found thirty-six vessels belonging to various nations.
Pitching his tent on shore in sight of all the vessels, he summoned the merchants and masters to assemble on the shore.
He had brought 260 men from England, in two ships and three barks, to make a settlement on that island.
Being assembled, Gilbert read his commission (which was interpreted to the foreigners), when a twig and piece of turf were presented to him. Then he made proclamation that, by virtue of his commission from Queen Elizabeth, he took possession of the harbor of St. John, and 200 leagues around it each way, for the crown of England.
He asserted eminent domain, and that all who should come there should be subject to the