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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cortez, Hernando 1485- (search)
lde, 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 Tobasco, where he fought the natives and heard of Montezuma, emperor of a vast domain, possessor of great treasures, and living in a city called Mexico. After founding Vera Cruz, Cortez set out for Montezuma's capital. Fighting his way, he made the conquered natives own their vassalage to Spain and become his followers, and in November, 1519, he entered the city of Mexico with a handful of Spaniards who had survived the battles, and 6,000 native followers. Montezuma received him kindly. Cortez
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Van brunt, Gershom Jaques 1798-1863 (search)
Van brunt, Gershom Jaques 1798-1863 Naval officer; born in Monmouth county, N. J., Aug. 28, 1798; entered the navy as mid-:shipman in 1818; served in Com. David Porter's Mosquito fleet against pirates in the West Indies; was made lieutenant in 1827; had command of the brig Etna during the Mexican War; and took part in the expedition against Tuspan and in the second expedition against Tobasco. He was a commissioner to survey the boundary-line of California in 1848-50; was promoted captain in 1855; in the Civil War had command of the Minnesota and was active in the operations in the North Carolina Sound and in the blockade of Hampton Roads, where he saved his ship from the Confederate ram, Merrimac; and was promoted commodore in 1862. He died in Dedham, Mass., Dec. 17, 1863.