Conquistadores

[The Gray Ghost]

several companies make conquistadors but what is the time period generally for the term conquistadors.

[Conquistador]

Starts in /around 1528

http://www.azdema.gov/museum/famousbattles/pdf/Conquistadors%20and%20Spanish%20Colonial%20Period%20_1528-1848_-contex.pdf

I would guess an end around 1700, possibly earlier.


http://www.noblesandcourtiers.org/spanish-conquistadors.htm

Wikipedia caveats...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquistador

Gracias,

Glenn

[Captain Blood]

When did Columbus discover America? 1492? I think the era of the conquistadores probably starts from round about then. Certainly the conquistador figures from Foundry, Eureka and so on, are very much in late medieval armour and dress - kind of 1500 or so, by the look of things. Rather than the stereotypical high renaissance image of the swashbuckling Spaniard in his high combed morion, which is much more 1600.

[carlos marighela]

Conquistador: singular (Sp/ Portuguese)

Conquistadores: plural ( Sp/Portuguese)

Generally associated with the waves of invasion and discovery in the 16th C, before government and the various colonial administrations became established. Some say the term itself dates to the reconquista but for wargaming purposes I'd link to the age of discovery ( late 15th through to early 17th C).

[Bowman]

Starts in /around 1528

I'd say that's a little late, as the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan fell in 1521. I'd set it at 1492, after the Reconquista. When the subjection of the Arawaks and the Caribs enters full swing.

[Lowtardog]

I'd say that's a little late, as the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan fell in 1521. I'd set it at 1492, after the Reconquista. When the subjection of the Arawaks and the Caribs enters full swing.

Aye earlier, 1492 was first expedition, In 1511, Balboa founded a colony, the first European settlement in South America - the town of Santa Maria de la Antigua del Darien

Cortes wars against Aztecs was 1519 -1521

[The Gray Ghost]

my next question would be how late can they be used as Spanish troops in Europe?

[workerBee]

I'd say that's a little late, as the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan fell in 1521. I'd set it at 1492, after the Reconquista. When the subjection of the Arawaks and the Caribs enters full swing.

True, I plead lack of sleep the night before for missing that.

Gracias,

Glenn

[Bowman]

True, I plead lack of sleep the night before for missing that.

No worries!

my next question would be how late can they be used as Spanish troops in Europe?

That's a more complicated question. For instance let's take the battles between the Spanish and the Mapuche of Chile. These conflicts started sometime around 1545 and finished almost in the 1800's.

At what point did these battles shift from wars of conquest, to wars of propping up colonialism? Do the Conquistadores stop being conquistadores as the conquests are at an end? Personally, I don't know.

[The Gray Ghost]

that answers my question though as I am thinking of pitting them against some TAG Tudors.