Francisco de Montejo (about 1479 - about 1548) was a Spanish soldier .

This Conquistador was used for Cuba under Diego Velásquez, then ordered a ship in the forwarding of Juan de Grijalva, and joined Hernán the Cortes in the conquest of the Mexico.

Montejo was commissioned to conquer the Yucatán with the Maya S, but it failed in its attempt (1527-28) to take the peninsula since the east. It returned to Mexico, took (1530) Tabasco, then led (1531-32) a campaign since the west. At the beginning, partially successfully, it met an increasing Maya resistance, and its men, exhausted and not finding any spoils, made desertion.

His/her son, with the same name, conquered Yucatán and founded the towns of Campeche and Mérida in 1542.

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• History of Mexico;
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