by Robert Torrez Less than two generations after Christopher Columbus set foot on the shores of an obscure Caribbean island and claimed this New World for the Spanish kingdoms of Leon and Castille, Spanish conquistadores such as Hernando Cortes and Francisco Pizarro had conquered Mexico, Peru, and much of…
By Robert J. Torrez Former New Mexico State Historian Governor Antonio de Otermin and approximately 2000 Spanish refugees spent the winter following their expulsion from New Mexico at what was supposed to be a temporary camp near El Paso de Norte, present day Cuidad Juarez. Here Otermin established his…
Explore the Spanish Colonial time period 1540 Francisco Vázquez de Coronado Francisco Vázquez de Coronado arrives in New Mexico in the Summer of 1540 at the head of an expedition consisting of about four hundred Spaniards and from 1,300 to 2,000 Indian auxiliaries. He remains in New Mexico…
