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Alvarado, Pedro de c.1485-1541
Spanish conquistador
Companion of Hernán Cortés during the conquest of Mexico (1519-21), he became Governor of Tenochtitlán, where the harshness of his rule incited an Aztec revolt which drove the Spaniards out. In the following year Tenochtitlán was recaptured and razed, and Mexico City built in its place. From 1523 to 1527 he was sent by Cortés on an expedition to Guatemala, which also conquered parts of El Salvador. He returned to Spain, and in 1529 was appointed Governor of Guatemala. He embarked on an expedition to conquer Quito, Ecuador, in 1534, but was bought off by Francisco Pizarro.
Bibliography: John E Kelly, Pedro de Alvarado, Conquistador (1932)
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