The history of America

The History of America is William Robertson's landmark 1777 historical work detailing the European discovery and conquest of the Americas, with extensive coverage of Hernán Cortés's campaign against Montezuma and the Aztec Empire, the siege of Mexico City, and the broader Spanish colonization that followed. Widely read and reprinted for over a century in numerous English and French editions, it stood as one of the Enlightenment era's most influential accounts of the New World's early history.