Conquistador
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...military leader in the Spanish conquest of the New World in the 16th cent. Francisco Pizarro , the conqueror of Peru, and Hernan Cortes , the conqueror of Mexico, were the greatest of the conquistadors. The name is frequently used to mean any daring, ruthless...