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The Aztec forces managed to push back the Spanish and halt this assault on the capital with a determined and hard-fought land and naval counterattack. [26]: 94 [34]: 359–60 Cortés faced "more than a thousand canoes" after he launched his thirteen sloops from Texcoco.
10 May – Start of the siege of Tenochtitlan; potable water from Chapultepec cut off; 30 June – Defeat of Spanish-Tlaxcalteca forces on a causeway; capture and ritual sacrifice of the Spaniards and their horses in Tenochtitlan; July – Spanish ships land at Veracruz with large numbers of Spaniards, munitions, and horses
In mid-May, Cortes left Tenochtitlan to deal with Narváez. [3] Narváez took advantage of his numerical superiority and captured the city of Cempoala , making it his base of operations. [ 4 ] He took as hostages the eight Cempolan noblewomen that had married Spanish men in Cortés' company, and allowed his men to mistreat the local population.
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, 1st Marquess of the Valley of Oaxaca [a] [b] (December 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century.
Mysterious 500-year-old skeleton buried in palace of Cortes revealed to be Aztec woman. Brendan Rascius. January 26, 2024 at 2:36 PM ... The remains instead belonged to an Aztec woman of the ...
La Noche Triste ("The Night of Sorrows", literally "The Sad Night"), was an important event during the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, wherein Hernán Cortés, his army of Spanish conquistadors, and their native allies were driven out of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan.
The ship was originally scheduled to arrive Sunday. In a statement, Norwegian said "a small number of guests" were experiencing "mild symptoms of a stomach-related illness."
US and Canadian officials are investigating after a 689-foot ship collided with an underwater object and began taking on water in Lake Superior, the US Coast Guard says.