Sad Noche

The Noche Triste (in Spanish “sad night”) is the name given to an episode of the conquest of the Mexico by the Spanish : the June 30th 1520, the troops of Hernán the Cortes are massacred with Tenochtitlan (site of current the Mexico City) by the Aztèques.

The massacre takes seat a little more than one year after the unloading of the Cortes to Tabasco. Tie left local mythology (one takes it for Quetzalcoatl) and thanks to the services the Malinche, a mongrel young person, the Cortes had quickly subjected the Aztec ones, had penetrated in their capital, Tenochtitlan, and had made captive the emperor, Moctezuma II.

Worried by the unloading of Pánfilo de Narváez, another Spanish explorer, the Cortes leaves with its lieutenant, Pedro de Alvarado, the command of Tenochtitlan while it returns on the side and demolishes the troops of Narváez. During this time, Alvarado, believer to discover a plot, make massacre part of the aristocracy and Aztec clergy. A new emperor is chosen, Cuitláhuac, which orders with its soldiers to besiege the palate sheltering the Spaniards and Moctezuma. To its return, the Cortes does not manage to alleviate the anger of the Aztec ones. In the night of June 30th at July, it tries an exit out of Tenochtitlan. However, the population cut the bridges and part of the army of the Cortes is massacred.

Tenochtitlan will be taken again on August 13rd, 1521 by the Cortes and after several of years of imprisonment, Cuauhtémoc will be carried out in 1525.

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