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Cortés and his party enter the Mexica capital on 8 November 1519.
8 Nov 1519
Cortés enters Tenochtitlan. Cortés and his party enter the Mexica capital on 8 November 1519.
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Nov 1519: Moctezuma II intervened in Cortés enters Tenochtitlan. Gave the speech that Cortés reports.
This speech is Cortés’s report to his king. Restall argues that the Cortés-as-god story grew later; see the story.
According to Hernán Cortés. This is one side’s account, not established fact.
8 Nov 1519: Hernán Cortés intervened in Cortés enters Tenochtitlan. Led the Spanish party.
Cortés enters Tenochtitlan appears in Letters of relation of Hernán Cortés, Florentine Codex and Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest.
According to Florentine Codex and Matthew Restall, each in its own account.
Cortés enters Tenochtitlan involved Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma II.
According to Hernán Cortés.
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