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 .. . wright, who had accompanied vessels were to be taken to pieces, and transported, togetherwith the iron-work and cordage belonging to the ships which Corteshad destroyed off Villa Rica, across the mountains to the great Mexi-can lake. At length all was ready; and, on the 28th of December, 1520, the whole army left Tlascala on its march towards consisted of ab
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 .. . wright, who had accompanied vessels were to be taken to pieces, and transported, togetherwith the iron-work and cordage belonging to the ships which Corteshad destroyed off Villa Rica, across the mountains to the great Mexi-can lake. At length all was ready; and, on the 28th of December, 1520, the whole army left Tlascala on its march towards consisted of about six hundred Spaniards, with nine cannons andforty horses, accompanied by an immense multitude of native war-riors, Tlascalans, Tepeacans, and Cholulans, amounting probably tosixteen thousand men, besides the tamaneSy who were employed intransporting the brigantines. Garrisons had, of cour-se, been left atVilla Rica and Segura. No opposition was offered to the invaders on their march, theMexicans fleeing at their approach ; and on the 1st of January. 1521, they took possession of the city of Tezcuco. Cuitlahua, Mon-tezumas successor on the throne, was now dead, and his place was 7(5 THL CONQUEST OF OLID. occupied by his nephew, Guatemozin, yet a young man, but themost heroic and patriotic of all the Mexicans. The policy of Corteswas first to subdue all the states and cities on the margin of the fivelakes, so as to leave Mexico without protection or assistance, andthen to direct his whole hrce to the reduction of the capital. Foifour months, therefore, Cortes, Sandoval, Alvarado, Olid, and hisother officers were employed, sometimes separately, sometimes inconcert, in reconnoitering expeditions into various parts of the Mexi-can valley—from Chalco, cn the banks cf the southernmost, to Xal-tocan, an island in the northernmost lake. Meantinje three vesselsarrived at Vera Cruz with a reinforcemen* of two hundred men,eighty horses, and a supply of ammunition, all of whi
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