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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
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.
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.
The voyage was chaotic from the start. Heavy storms sank 6 of the 19 ships, killing about 50 men. Several of the ships split up and Narváez didn’t land until April 22, at which point Cortés had already found extravagant lodging in Tenochtitlan. López Ayllón de la Audiencia de Santo Domingo, the representative for the King of Spain ...
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.
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.
The minibus, the scooter and one of the trucks landed on the ship, and the other two trucks fell into the water. Container ship hits bridge in south China, killing 5 and knocking section of ...