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--- |\n|  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |\n| U  I上   uUE   |  |  |\n|  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |\n|  |  |  |\n\nCabrillo National MonumentNational Park Service  \ne  \n0  \n0  \nEVERYMAN,I will go with thee,and be thy guide,In thy most need to go by thy side  \nWILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT  \nBorn at Salem,Mass.,in 1796 and educatedat Harvard,where he lost one eye and thesight of the other was permanently impaired.Died in 1859  \n# The Conquest ofMexico\n\nIN TWo VOLUMES·VOLUME TWo  \nINTRODUCTION BYTHOMAS SECCOMBE  \n叠  \nDENT:LONDON  \nEVERYMAN’S LIBRARY  \nDUTTON:NEW YORK  \n# All rights reserved\n\nMade in Great Britain  \nat the  \nAldine Press·Letchworth·Hertsfo  \nJ.M.DENT&SONS LTDAldine House·Bedford Street·LondonFirst published in Everyman'sLibrary 1909tprinscd 962  \nNO.398  \nCONTENTS  \nBOOK IV  \nRESIDENCE IN MEXICO—Continued  \nCHAP.PAGEV.MONTEZUMA SWEARS ALLEGIANCE To SPAIN—RoYALTREASURES—THEIR DrvISION—CHRISTIAN WoRSHIP INTHE TEOCALLI—DrscONTENTS OF THE AZTECS  ·       I  \nVI.FATE OF CoRTEs’EMISSARIES—PROCEEDINGs IN THE CAS-TILIAN CoURT—PREPARATIONS OFVELASQUEZ—NARVAEZLANDS IN MEXICo—PoLITIC ConDUCT OF CoRTEs—HELEAVES THE CAPITAL·   ·   ·   ·   ·   ·  I3VII.CoRTEs DESCENDS FROM THE TABLELAND—NEGOTIATIONSWITH NARVAEZ—PREPARES TO ASSAULT HIM—QUARTERSOF NARVAEZ—ATTACK BY NIGHT—NARVAEZ DEFEATED27  \nVIII.DisCONTENT OF THE TROOPs—INSURRECTION IN THE CAPITAL—RETURN OF CoRTEs—GENERAL SIGNS OF HosTILITY—MASSACRE BY ALVARADO—RISING OF THE AZTECS ·  42  \nBOOK V  \nEXPULSION FROM MEXICO  \nI.DESPERATE AssAULT ON THE QUARTERS—FURY OF THEMEXICANS—SALLY O THE SPANIARDS—MONTEZUMAADDRESSES THB PEOPLE—DANGEROUSLY WoUNDED .61  \nII.STORMING OF THE GREAT TEMPLE—SPIRIT OF THE AZTECS—DISTRESSES OF THE GARRISON—SHARP COMBATS IN THECITY—DEATH or MoNTEZUMA.            ·  73  \nIII.CoUNCIL OF WAR—SPANIARDS EVACUATE THE CrTY—NoCHETRISTE,OR THE“MELANCHOLY NIGHT”—TERRIBLESLAUGHTER—HALT FOR THE NIGHT—AMOUNT OF LoSSES 92  \nIV.RETREAT OF THE SPANIARDS—DISTRESSES OF THE ARMY一PYRAMIDS oF TEOTIHUACAN—GREAT BATTLE OF OTUMBA Io6  \nV.ARRIVAL IN TLASCALA—FRIENDLY RECEPTION—DIsCONTENTS  \nOF THE ARMY—JEALOUSY OF THE TLASCALANS—EMBASSY  \nFROM MExIco .  \n·       ·II9  \nConquest of Mexico  \nvi  \nPAGE  \nCHAP.  \nVI.WAR WITH TIE SURROUNDING TRIBES—SuccESSES OF THESPANIARDS—DEATH OF MAXIXCA—ARRIVAL OF REIN-FORCEMENTS—RETURN IN TRIUMPH To TLASCALA .I30  \nVII.GUATEMOZIN,EMPEROR OF THE AZTECS—PREPARATIONS FORTHE MARCH—MILITARY CoDE—SPANIARDS CROSS THESIERRA—ENTER TEzcuco—PRINCE IxTLILXOCHITL ·144  \nBOOK VI  \nSIEGE AND SURRENDER OF MEXICO  \nI.ARRANGEMENTS AT TEzcuco—SACK OF IZTAPALAPAN—ADVAN-TAGES OF THE SPANIARDS—WISE PoLICY o CoRTÉs—TRANSPORTATION OF THE BRIGANTINES      .   .165II.CoRTEs RECONNOITRES THE CAPITAL—OcCUPIES TACUBA—SKIRMISHES WITH THE ENEMY—ExPEDITION oF SAN-DOVAL—ARRIVAL OF REINFORCEMENTSI78III.SECOND RECONNOITRING ExPEDITION—ENGAGEMENTS ONTHE SIERRA—CAPTURE OF 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