This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.
The longest-living author of this work died in 1938, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 85 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, upon whose eye-witness accounts in his "Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva-España," or "True History of the Conquest of New Spain," this book is in great measure founded. He was born in Spain in the year 1492, and died in Guatemala about 1581.