The second Mexican Empire promises to prove as ephemeral as the first was durable. That of the Montezumas, which CORTEZ overthrew, had existed for centuries, but the empire which the Third ...

Empire Builders: Mexico. The Spanish Conquest. Episode 101 ... Following all that, the corpse was flung down the steps of the pyramid to land at the base.-Cortés kidnaps Montezuma.

Santa Anna and the Empire. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

The Aztec Empire flourished in the Valley of Mexico between A.D. 1325 and 1519 and was the last great civilization before the arrival of the Spanish in the early 16th century.

When President Cárdenas’ land reforms later broke up other great U.S.-owned land holdings, Hearst’s battalions of lawyers and editors staved off expropriation. Finally, in 1951, the old man died.

Beating back an empire. After Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821, ... Mexico lost a large portion of its land to the U.S. and entered into a period of economic and political instability.