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Cuauhtémoc hanged

Cuauhtémoc was hanged on a later expedition under Cortés, who says he had plotted; later writers disputed that.

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How each side tells it

Cuauhtémoc was hanged on a later expedition under Cortés, who says he had plotted; later writers disputed that.

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Cuauhtémoc According to Hernán Cortés Primary record 1
Cortés says an informer told him of a plot by Cuauhtémoc and the ruler of Tacuba, and that these two were hanged.
Hernán Cortés According to Francis Augustus MacNutt Scholarship & press 2
MacNutt reports the version in Torquemada, who copied a Mexican manuscript, and Bernal Díaz's statement that both men protested their innocence and the Spaniards disapproved.

Proof 2 sources

Letters of Cortés: the five letters of relation to the Emperor Charles V, volume 2 (English translation by Francis Augustus MacNutt, 1908; the Third Letter is dated 15 May 1522), G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London (scan on the Internet Archive), 1908. Primary record
These two, therefore, were hanged, and I set the others free
Letters of Cortés, volume 2: MacNutt's notes and appendices (1908), G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London (scan on the Internet Archive), 1908. Scholarship & press
who, without more ado hanged the three Princes that night on a Ceiba tree
Bernal Diaz states that both Quauhtemotzin and Tetepanquezatl protested their entire innocence, and that all the Spaniards disapproved of the execution

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