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Often appears with: treaties, truces, and peacemaking · siege warfare · siege and fortification · negotiation for peace · motecusuma death · council of war · conquest, plunder, and captives
Usually: narrative (1) · indignation (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’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…