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Led by a man willing to risk everything for power and conquest, armed with technology a hundred years ahead of ours—technology promising salvation to its allies and doom to its enemies—and drawing on a far deeper military history, the Protectorate Expeditionary Force has arrived to invade and incorporate our world into the greatest empire the multiverse has ever known, or die trying.

Tomás Cox presenta Cox en directo, historias intimas sobre temas como política, farandula, eventos, y más.

When a young boy and his father, a master gunner, leave their home in Devon they cannot know that piracy will become their life, for a while, at least. Set in the early days of the Spanish conquest of the Americas and with a young King Henry on the throne of England, this is a novel of discovery and riches, slavery and death. It is a time of innovation when guns changed from being firing tubes to cannons that could bring death and destruction. Above all, it is the story of a youth who, against the odds, becomes a man and, more, becomes a master gunner in his own right.

A drug cartel pours into a gap left by twin terror attacks, amassing invincible weapons in a push to dominate Southwest America. But no matter how powerful his tanks and machine guns, no weapon can force trust with the people closest to him. Nor can military force alone exterminate the relentless spirit of America, which is anything but dead.

Written by a leading historian of Latin America, Conquistadors and Aztecs offers a timely portrayal of the fall of Tenochtitlan and the founding of an empire that would last for centuries.

http://www.adfreebooks.com - 1000+ audiobooks, all ad free!Wharton Cameron is a young American of Creole descent hired to engineer a spur line for a Mexican railroad. The business folds and he is stranded near Hermosillo. His preferred route to the Rio Grande is barred by marauding bands of the fearsome Hernando Luca, so Wharton heads toward the hacienda of Santa Eulalia where he seeks the protection of its hacendado (proprietor), Don Fernando Gutierrez. Don Fernando has no legitimate heir. He adopts Wharton and the transformation of Wharton to Don Pablo Gutierrez begins. Before long Don Pablo...

Nicolás Larraín y El conquistador podcast presentan #LAVERDAD con analisis sin anestesia sobre los diferentes sucesos que tenemos en nuestro pais y en el mundo.

The two aristocratic siblings Blotto and Twinks are once again launched into another death-defying adventure, this time in the civil war-torn republic of Jalapeno, in Mexico. But how did they ever get to such a foreign and distant land in the first place? For Twinks it was an easy decision - to escape her mother's match-making attempts she sets out to visit her old friend, Begonia Guiteras, who lives in Jalapeno, which is fortuitously on the doorstep of an Aztec dig Twinks wants to work on.

Continue the journey through the history, adventure, tension, and dangers faced by the Conquistadors, led by Hernan Cortes - the Alexander of the Americas - as they continue their epic tale of conquest against the Mexican Empire. After Cortes' expulsion from the Mexican capital on the much-lamented Night of Sorrows, the Conquistadors are reeling and their alliances crumbling. Hernan Cortes, unbowed and undaunted, refuses to give up the fight and determines to stay the course of the war against the Aztecs, and his own countrymen, to its bitter conclusion.

El 12 de octubre de 1492 el almirante Cristóbal Colón, al mando de tres navíos y un puñado de aventureros, soldados y clérigos, descubría la realidad de un nuevo continente que recibiría más tarde el nombre de América. Aquella tierra se convirtió de inmediato en el paraíso prometido...

A series of child abductions in Peru leads an FBI agent and an archaeologist to uncover the ultimate secret of the Inca Empire. On a Peruvian Andes mountaintop, archaeology professor Nina Ramirez and her students make two stunning discoveries: The five-hundred-year-old mummy of an Inca girl, the victim of ritual sacrifice, and in another grave, the corpse of a recently kidnapped boy wearing the same ancient costume. Child abductions are being reported throughout Peru, and when an American boy is snatched in Lima, FBI agent Adam Palma is assigned to the case.

This memoir is an autobiographical account of the events as witnessed by Bernal Diaz - a Conquistador on that journey - a man from Spain who desperately hoped to carve out a life of riches for himself in the new world and instead found himself on an epic journey of conquest, whilst desperately fighting to stay alive, in previously unknown and unimagined lands. This is a true tale written in his own hand and translated into English. It is a gripping account of the events from the soldiers' viewpoint as each day becomes a battle for survival against incredible odds.

More than 500 years before his friendship with Kitty, noble Ricardo de Avila's life met a fate-changing twist, and his morally complex, blood-soaked existence as an immortal began. Before being turned, Ricardo de Avila would have followed Coronado to the ends of the earth. Instead he found the end of his mortal life - and a new one, as a renegade vampire. For over 500 years as an immortal, Ricardo has followed his own moral code, upsetting the established order in the demon world.

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. En esta novela, Vázquez-Figueroa vuelve a la ambientación recreada en "La taberna de los cuatro vientos" al contar la historia de su dueña, Catalina Barrancos, mujer aventurera y empoderada. Catalina se embarca en una misión de venganza tras el asesinato de su marido Justino a manos de los poderosos esclavistas a los que se enfrentó en el pasado. Ahora Catalina no descansará hasta hacerles pagar por su afrenta.

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Una llamada de auxilio, una barca en problemas en el cabo de Hornos, tres hombres en una misión de salvamento, la historia de los pioneros en el territorio más hostil del planeta: un desierto eterno de hielo y nieve. De toda la obra de Francisco Coloane, Los conquistadores de la Antártica es tal vez la que mejor resume su gran obsesión literaria: el enfrentamiento del hombre con su entorno.

A partire dalla metà del Cinquecento, una marea di argento proveniente dalle colonie americane, soprattutto Messico e Perù, prese a riversarsi sulla Spagna e poi sull'Europa. Il metallo prezioso viaggiò incessantemente da Occidente verso Oriente in pagamento delle merci orientali appetite dagli europei, le quali compivano l'itinerario inverso. Dalla Turchia alla Persia, all'India, alla lontana Cina, fu una rozza e pesante moneta d'argento, il "real de a ocho", a far funzionare il sistema di questo commercio su scala mondiale.

¡Bienvenidos a Conquistadores de America!En este podcast, nos adentramos en el apasionante mundo de las inversiones y los negocios en los Estados Unidos, con enfoque en cómo los latinos pueden identificar y aprovechar oportunidades de adquisición e inversiones en búsqueda de crecimiento financiero y oportunidades para migrar. Si estás buscando comprar un negocio, aquí encontrarás consejos prácticos, análisis de tendencias del mercado y entrevistas con expertos que te guiarán en cada paso del camino.Ya seas emprendedor, inversionista o simplemente estés buscando nuevas oportunidades ...

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Chile Renace es una mirada directa y cercana de las empresas y emprendedores para enfrentar los tiempos difíciles que estamos viviendo.Conducen: Tomás Cox FernándezMartes: 15 hrs.