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An alarm was sounded and the Aztecs attacked with fury. Hundred of soliders were killed or captured. Others, weighted down with the gold and silver loot they had collected, fell into the canals and drowned.
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www.mexconnect.com/articles/1538-the-spanish-conquest-1...
www.mexconnect.com/articles/1538-the-spanish-conquest-1519-1521
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Cortes moved his force a short distance northward and established what became the port of Vera Cruz as he made plans to advance against the Aztecs. From the Tabasco natives he took a mistress and enlisted their help to supplement his army.
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www.carpenoctem.tv/military/cortes.html
www.carpenoctem.tv/military/cortes.html
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On November 8, 1519, Cortez reached Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City) and was graciously received by Montezuma, the Aztec emperor. Soon after Cortez established headquarters in the capital, he learned that the Aztecs had plundered Veracruz.
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library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/cortez.htm
library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/cortez.htm
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History of THE AZTECS including Mexico City, Aztec sun rituals, Quetzalcoatl, Arrival of Cortes, Cortes and Montezuma, A brutal end ... The Aztecs are a tribe, according to their own legends, from Aztlan somewhere in the north of modern Mexico. From this place, which they leave in about the 12th century AD,
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www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?his...
www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=aa12
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When the Spanish adventurer Hernan Cortez arrived in 1519, the rich city was a vision perfectly meshed to his thirst for conquest. The Conquest of New Spain, a great and tragic history, begins in April of 1519 when a Cortes lands in Veracruz, about 200 miles from the ... When the Aztecs finally laid siege to the palace,
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www.geographia.com/mexico/mexicohistory.htm
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He used Guns that the Aztecs have never seen and also Cortez brought disease to the Aztec and the Aztec had no defence for those diseases.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_did_Cortez_use_to_defeat...
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The capture of Tenochtitlan and the reduction of the Aztecs to submission were still as much as ever the objects of Cortés, and he resumed the task sturdily in spite of his temporary check. His forces he rested and augmented.
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www.chroniclesofamerica.com/spanish-conquerors/cortes_d...
www.chroniclesofamerica.com/spanish-conquerors/cortes_defeats_the_aztecs.htm
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Moctezuma I (the other Moctezuma) | Jeronimo de Aguilar | Hernan Cortez | Cuauhtemoc | Moctezuma II ... Cortez defeats the Aztecs | La Malinche | La Malinche - Unrecognized Heroine | The Settlement of New Spain...
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www.vivasancarlos.com/History.html
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216 - Hannibal defeats Romans at Cannae ... 1345 - Aztecs build Tenochtitlan ... 1521 - Hernan Cortez defeats Aztecs and burns Tenochtitlan: Ferdinand Magellan's expedition circumnavigates the world...
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www.ukg.co.uk/oldgames/inferno/timeline.htm
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