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Pedro de Alvarado

Spanish captain left in command in Tenochtitlan in spring 1520 while Cortés went to the coast.

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Spanish captain left in command in Tenochtitlan in spring 1520 while Cortés went to the coast.

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Toxcatl massacre May 1520 commanded the Spaniards in the city According to Pedro de Alvarado Scholarship & press 1
MacNutt reports what Alvarado alleged in his own defence at a later inquiry; the story gives it as his account.

Toxcatl massacre According to Pedro de Alvarado Scholarship & press 1
Alvarado's later defence, as MacNutt reports it, and MacNutt's account of Tlaxcalan suspicion beforehand. MacNutt adds his own judgment that Alvarado's conduct 'seems destitute of any reasonable excuse'.

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May 1520 Pedro de Alvarado intervened in Toxcatl massacre According to Pedro de Alvarado

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Letters of Cortés, volume 1: MacNutt's introduction and appendices (1908), G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London (scan on the Internet Archive), 1908. Scholarship & press
it was common report in the city that, during Cortes's absence, the reduced garrison would be crushed
The Tlascalans next excited his suspicions that the festival was merely a pretext to collect a large multitude in the city
Cortes had consented, before he left Mexico, to the usual celebration, with the proviso that there should be no human sacrifices

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