A Few Facts
About Mexico (Classic Reprint)
Description:... Excerpt from A Few Facts: About Mexico The Aztecs were the last to reach the valley. After many years of servitude and privations, they finally settled on the islands near the western borders of Lake Texcoco. There, according to an old legend, they found an eagle upon a cactus and holding a snake in its beak, and thereupon established their capital called T'enochtitlan, upon the site of the present City of Mexico. The monarchy of the Aztecs in creased in importance and power from the year 1376, when the first king was elected, until it was finally conquered by the Spaniards un der H-ernan Cortez.
The latter landed in Veracruz on April 2lst, 1519. His conquest of the country and the stubborn resistance of the Aztecs are subjects which have been the theme of the historian and the poet, the siege of the City of Mexico being the final and culminating scene of that his torical drama. The capital was captured on August 13, 1521, when the conqueror Cortez became governor and captain-general of the coun try, which was called New Spain.
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