Burn the Ships, You Know?

Cortez saw that his men were not strongly decided, they were not totally committed to the mission. So what did he do? It's very famous, yu pright heard the story. He burned their ships. Why? Because then there wasno, there was no way to easily go home again. They would have to wait until more ships came from spain or somehow build new ships,. I don't even know how they got back onesly te read more about the story.