When was it published?

July 7, 1787 in The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Foreign News July 7, 1787

The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Q: What keywords are associated?

Mosquito Country, Spanish Authority, Cortez Conquest, 1521 Flight, Colonial Asylum

Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire

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What is this article about?

Correspondent states Spaniards have no rightful authority over Mosquito country inhabitants, whose ancestors fled the murderous conquest by Ferdinando Cortez in 1521, establishing an asylum there and defying subsequent Spanish attempts to extirpate them.

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A correspondent believes the fact to be too well known to justify him again in repeating it, that the Spaniards have by right no claim of authority over the inhabitants of the Mosquito country; the ancestors of the present inhabitants fled from the murderous sword of the Spaniards under the command of Ferdinando Cortez in 1521, whose savage heart beat with infernal pleasure when he was surrounded by the slaughtered bodies of thousands of innocent men, and made the Mosquito country their asylum, from whence by the aid of Heaven, their posterity have defied all the malicious efforts of Spain to extirpate them.

What sub-type of article is it?

Colonial Affairs

What keywords are associated?

Mosquito Country Spanish Authority Cortez Conquest 1521 Flight Colonial Asylum

What entities or persons were involved?

Ferdinando Cortez

Where did it happen?

Mosquito Country

Foreign News Details

Primary Location

Mosquito Country

Event Date

1521

Key Persons

Ferdinando Cortez

Outcome

slaughtered bodies of thousands of innocent men; posterity have defied all the malicious efforts of spain to extirpate them

Event Details

The ancestors of the present inhabitants fled from the murderous sword of the Spaniards under the command of Ferdinando Cortez in 1521, whose savage heart beat with infernal pleasure when he was surrounded by the slaughtered bodies of thousands of innocent men, and made the Mosquito country their asylum, from whence by the aid of Heaven, their posterity have defied all the malicious efforts of Spain to extirpate them.