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Spanish Conquest of America, Conquest in Mexico, Conquest in other parts…
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Conquest in Mexico
They had been sent by Diego Velasquez to unseat Cortés. When Cortés heard of this, he took a garrison of Spanish and Tlaxcalan soldiers and marched on the Spanish.
While Cortés held Tenochtitlán through Montezuma, a Spanish force from Cuba landed on the coast of Mexico.
Diego de Vasquez, governor of Cuba, sent Hernan Cortes to Mexico.
While Cortés held Tenochtitlán through Montezuma, a Spanish force from Cuba landed on the coast of Mexico.
In 1519, Hernan Cortes’s ships reached the Mexican coast at Yucatan.
They provided the Europeans with food, supplies, and women, including an interpreter called Malintzin, also known as “La Malinche” or “Doña Marina”.
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She became Cortes’s translator, spouse and intermediary with the natives and helped him to send messages to Emperor Moctezuma.
More than 3 million Aztecs died from smallpox, and with such a severely weakened population, it was easy for the Spanish men to take Tenochtitlán.
Cortés regrouped 300 Spanish and 15.000 native aliens, so he attacked Tenochtitlan in full force in April 1521 by sea and land.
July 1, 1520, the Spanish men occupying Tenochtitlan decided to escape from the city, as they had been under heavy attack for several days.
Moctezuma dies. The Spanish referred to the escape as "The Night of Sorrows" because Mexicans killed 900 Spanish and one thousand allied Indians.
These attacks lasted 75 days. Finally, in August 1521 the city was destroyed.
Wherein Hernan Cortes and his army of 1.300 Spanish men, 100 horsemen, and 2000 native allies fought their way out of the Mexican capital at Tenochtitlan.
Montezuma’s successor, Cuauhtemoc, was arrested and tortured.
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