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Conquistador : Herná...
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Conquistador : Hernán Cortés, King Montezuma, and the last stand of the Aztecs / Buddy Levy.
New York : Bantam Books, 2008.
ISBN:
9780553805383
(hbk.)
055380538X (hbk.)
Description:
x, 429 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Setting out for New Spain and the serendipitous gift of language -- The battle with the Tabascans and the acquisition of La Malinche -- Montezuma's message -- The gambler stakes all : "either win the land, or die in the attempt" -- Into the mountains -- The massacre of Cholula -- The city of dreams -- City of sacrifice -- Seizure of empire -- Cortés and Montezuma -- Spaniard versus Spaniard -- The Festival of Toxcatl -- Montezuma's ironic fate -- La noche triste -- "Fortune favors the bold" -- "The great rash" -- Return to the Valley of Mexico -- The wooden serpent -- Encirclement -- The siege begins -- Clash of empires -- The last stand of the Aztecs.
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