Letters of Cortes: The Five Letters of Relation from Fernando Cortes to the Emperor Charles V.G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908 |
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Acalan adelantado afterwards alcalde mayor alguacil mayor already amongst arrived attack believe Bernal Diaz bridges brigantines brought Cæsarian Majesty called camp canoes captain captured caravel Casas causeway chief Chinantla city of Temixtitan coast command Cortes Cristobal de Olid cross Culuans Cuyoacan Diego Diego Velasquez encomiendas enemy Espiritu Santo everything favour field pieces fighting Francisco Francisco de Garay friends Garay gold Gonzalo Gonzalo de Sandoval horsemen horses houses hundred foot soldiers Indians inhabitants island Iztapalapa Juan Juan de Grijalba killed knew lake land leagues letter likewise Lord maize Majesty's service messengers Mexicans Mexico natives night ordered pacified Panuco passed peace Pedro de Alvarado port province provisions Quauhtemotzin reached received returned river road royal sent ships Spain Spaniards street Tabasco Tacuba Tascaltecal Tesaico Texcoco things thousand pesos told took town vassals Vera Cruz village warriors wished wounded
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الصفحة 51 - En Tacuba está Cortés con su escuadrón esforzado, triste estaba y muy penoso, triste y con gran cuidado, la una mano en la mejilla, y la otra en el costado, etc.
الصفحة 59 - April 1 of the said year, I made a review of all my people and found eighty-six horsemen, a hundred and eighteen bowmen and musketeers, seven hundred and odd foot soldiers with swords and shields, three heavy iron guns, fifteen small bronze field pieces and ten cwt. of powder. Having finished the review, I charged and recommended all the Spaniards to obey and comply with the ordinances which I had made respecting the conduct of the war, and to be merry, and keep up their courage inasmuch as they...
الصفحة 99 - Spaniards nursing their wounds and preby this, they retreated into their camp, having fought very well that day and arrived almost to the market-place which would have been won that day if God, on account of our sins, had not permitted so great a misfortune. We returned to our camp sadly, somewhat earlier than we were accustomed to on other days; also because we heard the brigantines were lost as the Mexicans had fallen on our rear with the canoes, though it pleased God that this should not be true....
الصفحة 136 - Estremadura. rebuilding of the said city of Temixtitan was begun it is already very beautiful, and Your Majesty may believe that each day it will become nobler, so that as it was before the head and mistress of all these provinces, so it will be henceforward; it is being and will be so built that the Spaniards will be perfectly strong and safe, and supreme lords of the natives, secure from any fear of being assailed by them. In the meantime, the chief of the province of...
الصفحة 127 - I ordered the signal of the musket to be fired, whereupon the corner they still held was immediately taken, and those who were in it were forced into the water, and others who had not fought surrendered. The brigantines swiftly entered that lake, and broke into the midst of the fleet of canoes, and the warriors no longer ventured to fight. It pleased God that the captain of a brigantine, called Garci Holguin, overtook a canoe in which there were some distinguished people, and, as he had two...
الصفحة 200 - ... but now— our Lord be praised— they are in such a condition that, between the Feast of the Holy Ghost and that of St. John in June, they will be ready for navigation if the tar does not fail me, for I have not been able to replace that which was burned, though I have ordered more to be sent me. I attach more importance to these ships than I can say, for I am positive that— God willing— I shall discover for Your Majesty more kingdoms and dominions than all those discovered up till now,...
الصفحة 160 - ... journey from the province, and many went thither and saw it, and they told me also that it is very rich in pearls and gold. I shall strive to ascertain the truth and when I am able to do so, I shall make a full account to your Majesty.17 Elsewhere in the same Letter Cortes reports that his lieutenant had seized "a woman whom all in those parts obeyed and everything quieted down because she sent to all the chiefs and commanded them to observe whatever was ordered in your Majesty's name, as she...
الصفحة 93 - ... soldiers, among whom were more than twenty-five crossbowmen and harquebusiers, and a huge number of our allies, I continued my march and moved as far up the other, narrower road as I was able. But at the entrance to it I halted the horsemen and ordered them on no account to move from there, nor to follow me unless I first ordered them to do so. I then dismounted and we arrived at a barricade they had built at the end of a bridge which we took with a small field gun, supported by the crossbowmen...
الصفحة 61 - Alvarado37 captain of one division, assigning him thirty horsemen, eighteen archers and musketeers, and one hundred and fifty foot soldiers with swords and shields, and more than twenty-five thousand warriors of Tascaltecal; these were to make their headquarters in Tacuba. I made Cristobal de Olid captain of another division, to whom I assigned thirty horsemen, eighteen archers and musketeers, and a hundred and sixty foot-soldiers with swords and shields, and more than twenty thousand warriors of...