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The Past and the Curious with Mix Sullivan. Hello my friends welcome to the Explorers Podcast. Glad you are back for Part 6 in our series on Ernan Cortez and the conquest of Mexico.

Our last episode was a doozy. Cortez had defeated an army of fellow Spaniards under the command of Panfilo de Narvise, but had then been forced to rush back to Tanachitland

to confront a revolt by the Aztec people following the massacre at the festival of Tachkottal.

After that, things did not go well for the Spanish. They ended up trapped in the city as the insurgency grew around them. In the process, Emperor Montezuma would die and his brother, Kuitlawak, would ascend the throne.

Quilawak would send the throne.

Quilawak would throw all the might of the Aztec Empire into the fight, forcing Cortez and

his men to try and slip out of the city on July 1st, 1520.

The retreat would be a disaster for the Spanish and their class-colon allies, with at least

half of their numbers, maybe more, being killed in the fighting.

The Spanish also lost most of the treasure they alluded from the Aztec coffers.

The defeat would be called Nanoche Trieste, the Night of Sorrows.

I also want to point out something that I did not mention in our last episode. This defeat was not just about the Spanish and their

class-colon allies. We cannot forget about the non-combatants, such as the women, slaves,

and porters. There were hundreds, maybe even thousands of these people,

many of whom would die in the flight from Tenochtitlan. Cortez and the survivors made their

way east, aiming for the safety of Kla.

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