Which Spanish 'conquistador' burnt his fleet off the coast of Mexico in order to stop his men deserting?
Francisco de Aguilar (conquistador) published in 1900 by the Mexican historian and archivist, Francisco del Paso y Troncoso. A modern English translation of Aguilar's chronicle is published in "The Conquistadors: First-Person Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico," In his elderly years, he was diagnosed with gout and he soon died in Mexico at the age of 92. Francisco de Aguilar (conquistador) Francisco de Aguilar (1479 — 1571?), born Alonso de Aguilar, was a Spanish conquistador who took part in the expedition led by Hernán Cortés that resulted in the conquest of the Aztec Empire and the fall of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec
Pacific Coast of Mexico the Pacific Ocean, from the port of Acapulco in the Spanish colonial México to Manila in the Spanish East Indies and back. Both under the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain. "Manila Galleons" is also used to refer to the trade route between colonial Acapulco and Manila, which lasted from 1565 to 1815. Pacific Coast of Mexico The Pacific Coast of Mexico or West Coast of Mexico stretches along the coasts of western Mexico at the Pacific Ocean and its Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez). On the western Baja California Peninsula coast, it extends from the border with the United