Things go alone on this earth ... we won two of three falls and the third we won.
Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, English wealthy and looking for new places slaves of Cuba took the beautiful island Fernandina110 or men, two boats and one provided by Diego de Velazquez governor of the sail area of \u200b\u200bAjaruco and in 19 days by a storm, not capacity, landed on Isla Mujeres where first seen in America the const rucciones stone, since the newly discovered lands had appreciated only thatched huts.
The ships traveled the Yucatan peninsula in Cabo Catoche under attack, also in Campeche and Champotón, losing 50 men, and a boat. The expedition headed to Florida and returned to the island of Cuba.
The English adventurer was injured with 10 arrows in his body that would lose his life in 1518 on the island of Cuba.
The second expedition to land Mex ican performed by Juan de Grijalva, a relative of Governor Diego de Velásquez departing May 1, 1518 arriving in Cozumel, Yucatan Peninsula runs reaching the desired port in the Laguna de Términos Campeche, calling this place Grijalva New Spain.
Grijalva went to Veracruz to the island they called San Juan de Ulua, then to the Panuco where people looked to all sides and cultivated lands, which led to Grijalva to form a new empire , but since it did not have the strength to conquer, he returned to Cuba, where the governor received him with coldness and rejection, looking for another captain to conquer new land. 
Andres de Duero, who was secretary to the Governor of Cuba and the counter of the King of Spain, Amador de Lares, supported Hernán Cortés as captain of the armada that would address the new land, negotiating with bringing gold , silver and jewelry be divided among the three.
February 10 de1519, Hernan Cortes sailed with 11 ships and 500 soldiers, arrived at Isla Mujeres to go to Tenochtitlan, a place that would be conquered in 1521 thanks to its alliance with the Tlaxcala who along with other communities are help defeat the Aztecs, but their modern weapons, number of soldiers and military strategies.
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