Saturday, August 14, 2021

The Fall of Tenochtitlan

 


The Fall of Tenochtitlan, 500 years later.

Instapundit: Cortez and the Liberation of Mexico

"[E]xpedition leader Hernán Cortés and his 900 Spaniards made up only about one percent of the army of thousands of allies from Indigenous groups oppressed by the Aztecs."



Not so great if you were a captive from a neighboring tribe having your beating heart cut out.

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