Person
Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Soldier in Cortés's army who wrote a long account of the conquest of Mexico in old age.
Soldier in Cortés’s army who wrote a long account of the conquest of Mexico in old age.
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intervened in
- Smallpox in Mexico, 1520 1520 reports how smallpox came According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo Primary record 1
involved in
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Retreat from Tenochtitlan, 1520
According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Primary record
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Bernal Díaz gives this count while faulting another chronicler for treating the defeat as a mere nothing; it is far higher than Cortés's.
authored
- True History of the Conquest of New Spain Primary record 1
Timeline 1 date
- 1520 Bernal Díaz del Castillo intervened in Smallpox in Mexico, 1520 According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Proof 1 source
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The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, volume 1 (English translation by John Ingram Lockhart, 1844; text via Project Gutenberg #32474), Project Gutenberg (from the translation published in London, 1844), 1844.
Primary record
He happened to have a negro servant with him ill with the smallpox, through whom this terrific disease, which, according to the accounts of the inhabitants, was previously unknown in the country, spread itself through New Spain
where above 860 of our men were killed, for out of 1300 soldiers who had marched into the town to the relief of Pedro de Alvarado, which made out the united forces of Narvaez and Cortes, only 440 escaped
THE MEMOIRS OF THE CONQUISTADOR BERNAL DIAZ DEL CASTILLO WRITTEN BY HIMSELF
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