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Often appears with: treaties, truces, and peacemaking · siege and fortification · counsel and advisers to rulers · conquest, plunder, and captives · use of lances stones and arrows · tower imprisonment · strategy and the aims of war · siege warfare · siege of algiers · route planning toward tenochtitlan · peace settlement after violence · parliament debate
Usually: narrative (4) · the fall of the great (2) · detachment (2) · record or table (1) · reconciliation (1) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · censure (1) · curiosity (1) · indignation (1) · skepticism (1)
“Why does Malinche now turn to me?--to me, who am tired of life, and who could wish never again to hear his name mentioned, for it is he who has plunged me into all this misery!” Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Cast · observation
“Alas!” replied the monarch, “for all this, it is now too late. I am convinced that the Mexicans, whatever my wishes might be, will not grant any cessation of arms.” Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Cast · insight
“Cortes, according to the assurances of his servants, had tied up his splendid jewels in a kerchief, and fastened them tight to his arm; for it was customary for persons of distinction to take their jewels with them; but he unfortunately lost them in the rush every one made to save his own life;” Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Cast · vivid
Pepys reports Commissioner Pett’s imprisonment in the Tower, a rumored Dutch ship explosion, and talk at the Navy office that money shortages may lead to Parliament being called or not.
they begin to fear the main. He and every body cries out of the office of the Ordnance, for their neglects, both at Gravesend and Upner, and every where else. 18th. To the office, and by and by word was brought me that Commissioner Pett is brought to the Tower, and there laid up close prisoner; which puts me into a fright, lest they may do the same with us as they do with him. Great news to-night of the blowing up…
After laying down a fortnight in Cholulla, Cortes plans friendly negotiations with Motecusuma, sends flattering messages, and receives signals of Motecusuma’s continued caution via ambassadors and spies.
_The negotiations we set on foot with the great Motecusuma, and the ambassadors we sent him._ We had now lain a fortnight in Cholulla, and any further stay there would have been waste of time. All the inhabitants had returned to their dwellings, and the markets were again filled with goods and merchants; peace had been concluded between them and their neighbours the Tlascallans; a cross erected, and much of our …
Cortes’s men, after a failed bid for peace, withdraw under attack in Mexico, hold a war council, and pressure Motecusuma to address the besiegers; Motecusuma refuses, then is mortally wounded and dies amid renewed fighting.
it was defended so vigorously by large bodies of the enemy, both from the platform and from the landings, and by those who were stationed in the open space below. The retreat to our quarters was no less perilous; and if the multitude through which we had to cut our way was vast, that in front of our quarters was no less so. We just arrived in time, for the enemy had already made breaches in the walls, and a good man…
During Charles V’s siege preparations for Algiers, the marquis del Valle’s fleet is wrecked in a storm, Cortes loses jewels, the war council urges withdrawal to Bugia, and Cortes argues to renew the Algiers campaign later before returning to Spain.
*What befel the marquis del Valle on his second visit to Spain.* When the emperor, after punishing the town of Ghent, fitted out the large fleet to besiege Algiers, the marquis del Valle, with his eldest son, likewise entered the service, and he also took along with him his natural son Don Martin Cortes, whom he had by Doña Marina, besides several pages, servants, and horses, and embarked in a fine galley, with Don …
Diabolus is said to have been originally a servant of Shaddai who rebels to overthrow the Son, is banished, then with other fallen spirits attacks Mansoul and convenes a council of war with four strategies.
a most raving prince he was. We will, if you please, first discourse of the origin of this Diabolus, and then of his taking of this famous town of Mansoul. This Diabolus is indeed a great and mighty prince, and yet both poor and beggarly. As to his origin, he was at first one of the servants of King Shaddai, made, and taken, and put by him into most high and mighty place; yea, was put into such principalities as be…