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Often appears with: treaties, truces, and peacemaking · route planning toward tenochtitlan · intelligence gathering by spies · diplomatic messaging with aztec ruler · diplomacy and embassies · counsel and advisers to rulers · council of war
Usually: narrative (1) · reconciliation (1) · detachment (1)
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 …