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Identify an Unknown
Help give a name to one of the thousands of soldiers whose names were lost to history.
What does it mean to identify an unknown?
Many expeditions and battles recorded total numbers of participants, but not all names. For example, we know that approximately 630 men departed with Cortés, but we only know about 600 names. The other 30 are "the forgotten."
If you have found documentation that identifies one of these unknown soldiers — a will, a parish record, a mention in a minor chronicle — we can add their name to history.