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===Hernán Cortés (1519)=== The [[Spain|Spanish]] [[conquistador]] [[Hernán Cortés]], who led the first expedition that resulted in the fall of the [[Aztec Empire]], ordered his men to strip and scuttle his fleet to prevent the secretly planned return to [[Cuba]] by those loyal to Cuban Governor [[Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar]]. Their success would have halted his inland march and [[Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire|conquest of the Aztec Empire]].
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