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True History of the Conquest of New Spain

Bernal Díaz del Castillo's long account of the conquest of Mexico by a soldier who was there.

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Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s long account of the conquest of Mexico by a soldier who was there.

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Tlaxcala takes Cortés as an ally Primary record 1
Death of Moctezuma Primary record 1
Smallpox in Mexico, 1520 According to Bernal Díaz del Castillo Primary record 1
Bernal Díaz says a servant of the Spanish captain Narváez carried the disease. None of the accounts quoted says anyone meant to spread it.

Proof 1 source

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 were in want of salt to savour their victuals, as Motecusuma would not allow them to stir out of their country to procure it
Cortes, his officers, and all of us, shed tears for this unfortunate monarch
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
THE MEMOIRS OF THE CONQUISTADOR BERNAL DIAZ DEL CASTILLO WRITTEN BY HIMSELF

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