I just watched Apocalypso, crazy movie.
He burned the boats and decided to conquer the Aztecs against orders after witnessing their ritual child sacrifice. The popular history regarding Cortes and the Spanish is largely a result of hyperbolic propaganda during the time period against Catholic interest by protestant interests, mainly Elizabethan England. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/05/535613480/aztec-tower-of-skulls-reveals-women-children-were-sacrificed
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