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Restall, Matthew (2003). Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-516077-0. OCLC 51022823. Schwaller, John F. (2004). "Matthew Restall. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest". American Historical Review. 109 (4). Washington, DC: American Historical Association: 1271– 1272. doi:10.1086/530842.
Restall was born in a suburb of London, England, in 1964. He grew up in England, Denmark, Spain, Venezuela, Japan, and Hong Kong. But he was schooled in England from the age of 8, spending ten boarding-school years first at Marsh Court in Hampshire and then at Wellington College, before going on to receive a BA degree, First Class with Honors, in Modern History from Oxford University in 1986.
La Noche Triste ("The Night of Sorrows", literally "The Sad Night"), officially re-branded in Mexico as La Noche Victoriosa [2] ("The Victorious 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.
Restall, Matthew, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press 2004. Scholes, France V., and Ralph Roys. The Maya Chontal Indians of Acalan-Tixchel. Washington, D.C., 1948. Includes a unique text in Chontal that tells about the death of Cuauhtémoc. [ISBN missing]
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos. S. L. Cline, Museo de Antropología e Historia, Archivo Histórico Colección Antigua, vol. 549. UCLA Latin American Center Publications ISBN 0-87903-082-8; 1995. Life and Death in a Maya Community: The Ixil Testaments of the 1760s. Matthew Restall.
However, a majority of Mesoamericanist scholars, such as Matthew Restall (2003, 2018 [37]), James Lockhart (1994), Susan D. Gillespie (1989), Camilla Townsend (2003a, 2003b), Louise Burkhart, Michel Graulich and Michael E. Smith (2003), among others, consider the "Quetzalcoatl/Cortés myth" as one of many myths about the Spanish conquest which ...
In his new memoir, “Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing,” out Nov. 1, the actor gets candid about some of the moments that have shaped his career and personal life, including his battle ...
[7] [13] In his relevant instance in the chronicle, after the Spanish and Tlaxcaltecs retreat from the la Noche Triste, a lone Aztec warrior challenged them on the road to a singles combat, leading Juan Cortés and conquistador Alonso de Moguer to come out of the ranks to answer the challenge. The duels never took place, as the Aztec fled ...