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  • Etiquetas: Destrucción

And mantled Mexico’s imperial head:/Tall columns of dun smoke encircling join’d, / Which wreaths of flame like angry snakes entwin’d

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Old Prophecies foretell our Fall at hand, When bearded Men in floating Castles land. I fear it is dire Portent.

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They reduc’d the Natives to the most abject Slavery, compelling those they left alive, to work in the Mines, and supply the Place of Beasts of Burthen; by which means they destroyed more of them than they had done by the Sword, and entirely…

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In the first place, the Spaniards, under presence of Zeal for destroying the Temples and Idols of the Mexicans, but, in reality, that none of the Gold and Silver, and other Treasures of the Mexicans might be concealed from them, pull’d down and…

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Cortez now proceeded to a distribution of the treasures that had been amassed: he caused all the gold dust and ornaments to be melted into ingots…

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They reduc’d the Natives to the most abject Slavery, compelling those they left alive, to work in the Mines, and supply the Place of Beasts of Burthen; by which means they destroyed more of them than they had done by the Sword, and entirely…

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The Spaniards destroyed all the ancient monuments of the country for they looked upon them as superstitious memorials of Pagan idolatry

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And on the Top of it was a great Stone Idol of the Moon. The Pyramid of the Sun was about a fourth part higher, and on the Top of it a vast Statue of the Sun. The Zeal of the first Bishop of Mexico, he tells us, had broke these Statues in Pieces, but…

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In the first place, the Spaniards, under presence of Zeal for destroying the Temples and Idols of the Mexicans, but, in reality, that none of the Gold and Silver, and other Treasures of the Mexicans might be concealed from them, pull’d down and…

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All that the hapless Mexicans endured/ When Cortez by the thirst of gold allured/ Spared neither state, nor rank, nor sex, nor age,/ When even their Sovereign, oh, remorseless rage!

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They reduc’d the Natives to the most abject Slavery, compelling those they left alive, to work in the Mines, and supply the Place of Beasts of Burthen; by which means they destroyed more of them than they had done by the Sword, and entirely…

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The Spaniards destroyed all the ancient monuments of the country for they looked upon them as superstitious memorials of Pagan idolatry

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Above forty Millions perished by War and Cruelty.

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They reduc’d the Natives to the most abject Slavery, compelling those they left alive, to work in the Mines, and supply the Place of Beasts of Burthen; by which means they destroyed more of them than they had done by the Sword, and entirely…

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In the first place, the Spaniards, under presence of Zeal for destroying the Temples and Idols of the Mexicans, but, in reality, that none of the Gold and Silver, and other Treasures of the Mexicans might be concealed from them, pull’d down and…

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In the first place, the Spaniards, under presence of Zeal for destroying the Temples and Idols of the Mexicans, but, in reality, that none of the Gold and Silver, and other Treasures of the Mexicans might be concealed from them, pull’d down and…

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Upon this Montezuma order’d Watches to be kept on all the Sea-Coasts, to give Notice when any Ships appear’d again. The Indian Priests, to encourage the Emperor, assured him that this Phaenomenon was their great Lord Queztzalcoalt come again, who had…

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