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In 1527, the Spanish general Alonso de Moraña ordered that

Sept. 24, 2017 by Elizabeth Duran

In 1527, the Spanish general Alonso de Moraña ordered that all vessels destined for Mexico should be turned into military vessels, but he was too late to stop the destruction. The ships had already been sunk and they would not have been able to leave Mexico, because the Spaniards had not yet learned from the conquistador's mistakes.

The Spanish navy had lost one of its largest ships in the war, but it had now lost three other warships. And it had lost a fleet of 15 ships.

In 1543, as the Aztecs were making preparations for a major invasion, Cortés ordered the Spanish to begin drilling for oil at Zamboanga, one of the largest oil fields in the world.

The Spanish had not been able to drill for oil in the wilds of the Zamboanga basin before the battle of the Guadalcanal. But Cortes had not yet determined where the drilling would begin. So in 1576, he ordered the U.S. Army to begin the digging. He needed the water, the oil, and a group of other experts to help him determine where the oil could be put.

Cortes believed that the Aztec oil field would be dug deep underground, a shallow pit that would allow the aquifers to flow. He also wanted to use the oil to irrigate it.

The Spaniards would not allow the oil to be dug out of the ground, so the U.S. government began to drill for oil. The Aztecs were not satisfied with any of this, so the Spanish authorities began to drill for oil.

During the following months, the U.S. government began to expand its drilling program as Cortes started using oil fields to irrigate the Aztec desert.

The United States was also involved in drilling for oil on the Mexico coast. On June 8, 1573, an official at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers declared that the oil had been dug out of the ground. The next day, Cortes ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to make a report on the situation. According to the Corps' report, the Aztec oil field had been dug deep, and that it had "failed to irrigate its entire territory."

The U.S. government was able to begin drilling within two months, but not without a major battle. In 1575, a U.S. Army brigadier general named William Henry Vollmer ordered the first drilling at Zamboanga.