He would visit the islands and lands discovered by the immortal "Admiral of the ocean sea" and follow in the footsteps of the conquistadores in Tierra Firme.
The same can be said with even more truth of the conquistadores of the Spanish Main and of the daring adventurers who first penetrated the trackless forests and scaled the lofty mountains of Venezuela and New Granada.
Herrera was the second of the conquistadores to reach the Meta by the Orinoco.
Federmann agreed to renounce all his claims in consideration of his receiving himself the sum of ten thousand pesos, and of having his soldiers enjoy all the rights of discoverers and conquistadoresaccorded to those of Quesada.
But discoverers and explorers, conquistadores and apostles, were not the only men who have rendered this part of the world forever memorable.
There was one of the celebrated camping-grounds of some of the most noted of the Conquistadores and thither we would hasten with the minimum of delay.
The early explorers and conquistadores were, on the contrary, in an unknown land, among murderous, relentless savages armed with poisoned arrows.
I would fain have enjoyed his companionship longer while following the conquistadores in lands farther south; but it was not to be.
In adventure and achievement, the three conquistadores above mentioned take rank with Cortes, Pizarro and Orellana.
All the way from Villavicencio we felt that we were following in his footsteps, as we had been following in the footsteps of other conquistadores from the time we had trod the romantic soil of Tierra Florida.
When the Conquistadores exterminated the Indians resident on its site and built the present city, for some occult reason they named it La Ciudad de Nuestra Señora de la Paz!
Some weeks before this, Almagro had joined the Conquistadores at Cajamarca with reinforcements that brought the Spanish force up to about five hundred.
It is easy to understand the importance the old Spanish conquistadores attached to the Isthmus of Panama, for all the gold brought from Peru had to be carried across it on mule-back to the Atlantic coast, before it could be shipped to Spain.
The wonderfully beautiful gorge of the Rio Cobre, above Spanish Town, was called by the conquistadores "Spouting Waters," or Bocas de Agua.
Conquistadores were adventurers who set out to find and conquer new lands for Spain in the New World which Columbus had discovered.
Columbus discovered more lands in the New World, and Conquistadoresplanted the Spanish flag all through North and South America.
The Conquistadores sent back a huge treasure of gold, silver, copper and jewels to Spain, and more than paid Queen Isabella and her family for her faith in Columbus.
In Extremadura, the land where the Conquistadores lived, and in León, there are great sweeping plains where the land is not very fertile because there are long dry seasons.
Their ancestors, on the one side, were the warlike Aztecs and other aboriginal races, and on the other the Conquistadores and martial men of Spain.
For the Mexicans are a race into which the religion of the Conquistadores penetrated indelibly, whose hold upon them time scarcely unlooses.
This is the State of Vera Cruz, of the "True Cross," where the Conquistadores tumbled down the Aztec idols from their teocallis and set up the image of the Virgin and Child!
Pech adds a list of the names of Conquistadores which I have not inserted, as it is less complete than that found in Cogolludo.
I, who am Nakuk Pech, of the first hidalgosconquistadores here in this land in the district Maxtunil, I am placed in the first town in the district Chac Xulub Chen.
It attains its greatest height in the Alto del Viento, north of Urrao, known to the firstconquistadores by the name of the Cordilleras of Abide or Dabeida.
When these are examined merely in a geographical point of view, we perceive the constant desire of the first conquistadores to reach the land comprised between the sources of the Rio Negro, of the Uaupes (Guape), and of the Jupura or Caqueta.
Such was then the state of civilization among the Tagalog-Bisayan tribes at the time when the Malay Mohammedans, and the Spanish conquistadores attempted, from opposite points, to introduce their religions into the archipelago.
To this type belonged the conquistadores of Spain, the Elizabethan seamen, the French explorers of North America, the daring Dutch navigators.
This latter circumstance would certainly be most pleasing to his readers; but he never gave it a thought, when he was writing, that the conquistadores themselves, and those better informed, would detect his errors and falsehoods.
However, several of the Conquistadores spoke of it as a fact; and may it please God that it was so.
The leading motive of the conquistadores was the love of gold.
Adventurers, explorers for gain, greedy conquistadores made the beginnings here, and the moral foundations were laid by religious leaders who traveled with pirates and plunderers and officially blessed their every act of crime.
He is bubbling over with information about the achievements of the Spanish conquistadores and the subsequent history of the lands over which they established their sway.
The conquistadores of Spanish America, the soldiers in Italy and the Netherlands, and the drones of Spain were all to be found among the teeming lower Spanish nobility and gentry.
These gentlemen now opposed the distribution in perpetuity, because they saw that the Conquistadores by such a measure would become independent of them, and trouble themselves no more about them.
I read the letter myself two or three times at Mexico, for Cortes shewed it to me in order to convince me of the great esteem in which we the true Conquistadores were held by his majesty.
This man was secretly advised by the auditors to bring actions against all those of the Conquistadores who had accompanied Cortes on the expedition against Narvaez, injured his person, burnt his property, and killed so many of his men.
Several of us veteran Conquistadores had frequently cautioned the new recruits to adopt this mode of attack, but many of them had neglected this good advice, and imagined they had done enough by merely wounding their antagonist.
They had full power to distribute the commendaries in perpetuity, and they were particularly desired to reward the Conquistadores handsomely, and to give them the preference in all matters.
Spanish conquistadores saddled their horses in Vera Cruz and rode until they had mapped the continents from the Horn to Montana and from the Floridas to the harbors of the Californias.
Astride horses introduced by theconquistadores to the Americas, the Plains Indians became almost a separate race from the foot-moving tribes of the East and the stationary Pueblos of the Rockies.
In this rich land, thus far neglected by the Spanish conquistadores because it yielded neither gold nor silver, surely the Huguenots might find prosperity and peace.
The Spanish conquistadores had not been ten years in the West Indies before they found that Indian slavery did not work.
The field was littered with dead, cut down like slaughtered cattle --Ah, but the earth is red where the Conquistadores are!
The Conquistadores were wise in their hateful way, when they put forth the resources of cruelty to outrage the feelings of the people and stamp terror in their hearts.
By it the Spanish Conquistadores went backward and forward in their campaign of subjugation and in the fierce struggles among themselves which followed, nor was it less important in the War of Independence a century ago.
None of these have been found in places that assure us of their use before the Spanish occupation, so we conclude that they were introduced by the conquistadores or the early colonists about 350 years ago.
Then, some of them with a profound knowledge of the Spanish tongue, went through all the records and diaries of the old conquistadores and the padres who accompanied them.
Once they had gained a foothold on the plateau, the Conquistadoresstopped not until the whole country was within their grasp.
The Conquistadores described the civilization they found upon Anahuac with such wealth of words, that the Halls of the Montezumas have been ever since the type of all that is rich and magnificent.
The Conquistadores entered Tlaxcalla the 22d of September, receiving demonstrations of the greatest friendship.
The elements finished what the Conquistadores had begun,--the ancient city of the Aztecs was in ruins.
In Spain, where it was early transplanted, among the other novelties which the Conquistadores introduced from their new land, it is absolutely at home.
The Conquistadoresdescribe it as a formidable state, bearing the name of a republic, of ancient origin and advanced civilization.
When the Conquistadorestook possession of the New Spain in the name of their royal master, the Emperor Charles V.
SOON after the arrival of the governor at the Ascension the natives and conquistadores brought serious charges against the officers of His Majesty.
Here they lived out their days, secure in the knowledge that no Indians would ever breathe to the conquistadores the secret of their sacred refuge.
Probably the conquistadoressupposed that Manco did what the Spaniards would have done under similar circumstances.
The Spanish conquistadores did not bring European women with them.
If the conquistadores ever saw this wonderful place, some reference to it surely would have been made; yet nothing can be found which clearly refers to the ruins of Machu Picchu.
Obliged by the civil wars of the conquistadores to flee from the Pizarros, they were glad enough to find a welcome in Uiticos.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conquistadores" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
