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Waterloo Place including the Duke of York's Column

A Pilgrimage was a comprehensive portrait of London

In his way is the Duke of Buccleugh

In later life he studied the assimilation of carbon dioxide in plants

The encounter between Hernando Cortes and Montezuma II mb-code 1193284 ' and in pencil lowerThe encounter between Hernando Cortes and Montezuma II, Mexico, 1519 (c1820 1839). Cortes (1485 1547) was the Spanish conquistador who conquered Mexico and overthrew the Aztec Empire ruled by Montezuma. Landing in Mexico in 1519, with a force of only some 600 men, Cortes succeeded in overthrowing the empire of the Aztecs, a civilization numbering 5 million. He was able to achieve this partly due to the natives being terrified of the Europeans' horses