An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . nd to arrive atTlascala, the city (jf their faithful allies. They were now able tocount the losses which they had sustained during the night. Aboutfour hundred and fifty Spaniards, and nearly four thousand Tlas-calans, had been drowned, slain, or made prisoners during the pas-sage along the causeway ; a loss which, added to the numbers killedwithin the city, reduced the army to li
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . nd to arrive atTlascala, the city (jf their faithful allies. They were now able tocount the losses which they had sustained during the night. Aboutfour hundred and fifty Spaniards, and nearly four thousand Tlas-calans, had been drowned, slain, or made prisoners during the pas-sage along the causeway ; a loss which, added to the numbers killedwithin the city, reduced the army to little more than a fourth ofwhat it had been when it entered Mexico ten days before. But themost deplorable part of the calamity, in the eyes of Cortes, was theloss of all the artillery, firearms, and ammunition, not so much aaa musket remaining among the five hundred who survived. Still,,under this accumulation of misfortunes, his heart did not sink; andhis resolution was taken not to leave the country till he had regained his former footing in it, and annexed it as a province to thedominions of his sovereign. o His first object was to reach Tlascala, where he might recruit th«s10 G 74 THE CONQUEST OF C0RT2S AT OTUMBA. Strength of his men—almost all of whom were stiff with wounds—and arrange his future proceedings. After many difficulties, anuanother great battle on the plain of Otumba, in which he defeatetJthe Mexicans, he reached it on the 9th of July, 1520. They werekindly received by the generous mountaineers, who withstood allthe solicitations of the Mexican sovereign, Cuitlahua, Montezumasbrother and successor, that they would assist him in driving theSpaniards out of the country. It was early in autumn, before Cortes left Tlascala. His inten-tion was first to punish several states of Anahuac which had revoltedduring his absence in Mexico, especially the districts of Tepeacaand Cachula; and then, after having reduced the whole countryeast of the Mexican valle
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