Moctezuma informs Cortés that a much larger…
April 1520 CE
Moctezuma informs Cortés that a much larger party of Spaniards consisting of nineteen ships and fourteen hundred soldiers under the command of Pánfilo de Narváez had arrived.
Narváez had been sent by Governor Velázquez from Cuba to kill or capture Cortés.
Leaving his two hundred "least reliable soldiers" under the command of Pedro de Alvarado to guard Moctezuma in Tenochtitlan, Cortés sets out against Narváez, who has advanced onto Cempoala.
People
Bernal Díaz del Castillo
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Bernardino de Sahagún
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Diego de Ordaz
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Gerónimo de Aguilar
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Hernán Cortés
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Juan Velázquez de León
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La Malinche (Malinali)
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Maxixcatl
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Moctezuma II
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Pedro de Alvarado
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Pánfilo de Narváez
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Xicotencatl I
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Xicotencatl II
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Groups
Totonac people
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Otomi, or Hñähñu, people (Amerind tribe)
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Mexica
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Texcoco (Acolhua city-state)
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Christians, Roman Catholic
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Franciscans, or Order of St. Francis
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Tlaxcala (Nahua state)
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Tlaxcaltec
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Aztec Triple Alliance
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Santo Domingo, Captaincy General of
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Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of
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