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vided his forces, sending the Aztec, Acolhua, and Tepanec armies by different roads to avoid the whole army's being held in a pass by inferior numbers. Scouts were sent into the city and returned at dawn with intelligence. In the ensuing battle the king and others scaled the fortifications, climbed the temple, and set it afire. When the enemy saw this they lost heart and surrendered.
17 Also conquered in this campaign were Achiotlan, Caltepec, Xaltianquizco, and Icpatepec.18 Other towns probably conquered during this campaign include Quiyauhtepec, Tliltepec, Yolloxonecuillan, Itzcehuitepec, Atepec, Iztitlan, and Quimichtepec.19 Although they may have been subdued during other incursions into the region, the conquests of Ixtlahuacan, Huaxyacac, Xalapan, and Teotzapotlan most plausibly occurred at this time.20 The campaign stretched 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) round trip and would have required 31 to 53 days of march, exclusive of days for combat, rest, and regrouping. |
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In 1504 the Aztecs again fought Tlaxcallan21 (see map 20) in the latest in a series of flower wars. The xochiyaoyotl opponents had already been loosely encircled, but now the Aztecs tightened the noose, and the level of violence rose throughout this reign. Moteuczomah Xocoyotl marched toward Tlaxcallan to the town of Xiloxochitlan, where the armies fought. As the battle went against the Aztecs, they sent to Tenochtitlan for reinforcements, and a relief army marched via Tetellan and Tochimilco, south of Cuauhquechollan, but they were defeated, too. A more massive campaign launched against Tlaxcallan also failed.22 The Aztec conflict with their xochiyaoyotl adversary had clearly escalated to a level more closely approximating a war of conquest. As it did so, the fighting became more intense, not simply because of the more desperate |
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