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The First Expeditions
In 1517, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, Governor of Cuba, commissioned three ships, under the command of Hernández de Córdoba, to explore the Yucatán peninsula. After an initial landing at Cape Catoche, during which the Spaniards took two prisoners to act as interpreters, the expedition reached the western side of the Yucatán Peninsula. the Maya attacked the Spaniards at night: twenty Spaniards were killed; Córdoba was mortally wounded; and only a remnant of the crew returned to Cuba. A year later, a second expedition, lead by Juan de Grijalva, sailed along the Yucatán coast and reached the Tabasco region, a part of the Aztec empire.