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Often appears with: military discipline and training · cavalry charge · battle of otumpan precursor · battle cries and religious invocation · battle and tactics · ambush on open plain
Usually: narrative (1) · wonder (1)
The retreat continues past towns like Quauhtitlan, then Cortes orders a cavalry charge against ambushed Mexicans on an open plain; the Spaniards fight at close quarters with cries of Santiago and win decisively.
the last conflict, and also one of our horses; besides that, numbers of us were wounded. We certainly destroyed some of the enemy in return, but the number was small. This night we quartered ourselves in a few straggling houses, and supped off the horse which had been killed.[92] The next morning early we continued our route, and marched in closer order than on the day previous, the half of our cavalry being always …