The City Of Dreams: The Aztec Conquest Part 2
Conflicted: A History Podcast
Cortez's Speech to Alvarado
Cortez's departure for the coast had de stabilized his hold over the city. Alvarado's massacre during the festival triggered a violent end game that could only result in their expulsion from tinochitlan. After the hor of la noce triste, everyone just wants to go home. Cortes calmly sets the letter down and asks to be left alone. Then he begins writing the wordsmith wasn't whipped yet.
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