One could argue for exploration, but more correctly it was in search of gold, and rich new land in the Americas.
11 ships
Hernando Cortes sailed to portogal
Mexico
In a boat, of course.
for Spain
to fine new lands to conquer
he sailed southwest from cuba
On 1534.
Between 1500-1547
Hernan Cortes
He sailed with Christopher Columbus in 1492.
In the year of 1519