The encounter between Hernando Cortes and Montezuma II Product:Postcard Copy of an inscription found

Copy of an inscription found in the Tower of London

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'Carry On' actor and star of the Thames television situation comedy show Bless This House pictured ahead of his visit to Australia where he will star in a stage farce called 'Marriage Fever'

he had been dubbed the 'Grand Old Man' by Henry Labouchere in 1881

The encounter between Hernando Cortes and Montezuma II Product:Postcard Copy of an inscription foundThe 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