Place

Tlaxcala

Highland city and polity east of the Valley of Mexico; the Tlaxcalans fought Cortés, then joined him against Tenochtitlan.

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In Tlaxcala

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Highland city and polity east of the Valley of Mexico; the Tlaxcalans fought Cortés, then joined him against Tenochtitlan.

Connections 3

Tlaxcala takes Cortés as an ally According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo Primary record 1
Bernal Díaz reports a speech by the Tlaxcalan lord Xicotencatl, from memory. No account written by a Tlaxcalan was read for this story.
Tlaxcala takes Cortés as an ally According to Florentine Codex Primary record 2
On the killing at Cholula, Book 12 says the Tlaxcalans had incited the Spaniards against the people of Cholula.
Fall of Tenochtitlan According to Hernán Cortés Primary record 3
Cortés writes that more than 25,000 warriors of Tlaxcala were assigned to the division of Pedro de Alvarado, and that more than 20,000 men of Texcoco went with him on another march. Other allies fought as well.

Proof 3 sources

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
they believed we had been sent by their enemy Motecusuma, who had often before used fraud and treachery to enter their country for the sake of plunder
Florentine Codex, Book 12: The Conquest of Mexico (Nahuatl text gathered under Bernardino de Sahagún in the 1500s; English translation by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, second edition, 1975), School of American Research and the University of Utah; the manuscript is on the Getty Research Institute's Digital Florentine Codex, 1975. Primary record
For in truth the Tlaxcallans had incited [the Spaniards] against them.
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
more than twenty-five thousand warriors of Tascaltecal

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