Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (Yucatán conquistador)
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Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (died 1517) was a Spanish conquistador, known to history mainly for the ill-fated expedition he led in 1517, in the course of which the first European accounts of the Yucatán Peninsula were compiled.
English-language references[change]
- Prescott, William H. (1843). "Book II, Chapter I". The Conquest of Mexico. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/PRESCOTT/bk02_ch01.html.; online English edition
- Díaz del Castillo, Bernal (1963 (orig. ca.1568)). The Conquest of New Spain. J. M. Cohen, trans. and abridged (7th reprint ed.). London: Penguin Classics.
Other websites[change]
- Discovery of Yucatán, on the Mexican web site redescolar. (Spanish)
- Discovery of Yucatán, on México desconocido. (Spanish)