"[W]e had more trouble in preventing our allies from killing with such cruelty than we had in fighting the enemy. For …"

"Fair Mexico, that, trembling in her chains, Saw ruthless strangers waste her peaceful plains, Where are the stately d…"

"The Aztecs were Polytheists, practising human sacrifice and, in some areas, ritual cannibalism; but there were also p…"

"The evidence of profit was even greater, of course, in the vast land empire which the conquistadores swiftly establis…"

"The West’s use of what was its temporary edge in technology, including guns, armour and steel, enabled it to take ove…"

"Some scholars consider the initial period of the Spanish conquest—from Columbus’s irst landing in the Bahamas until t…"

"For, as it happens, this is the one example of a Culture ended by violent death. It was not starved, suppressed, or t…"

"Who can doubt that gunpowder against the infidels is incense for the Lord?"

"And the Christians, with their horses and swords and pikes began to carry out massacres and strange cruelties against…"

"Presently we discovered two or three villages, and the people all came down to the shore, calling out to us, and givi…"