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69. Crónica mexicana 1975:644 [chap. 98]. |
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70. For example, the Tepanec war lasted three years but involved numerous inconclusive battles and the conquest of many towns before a final victory was certain (Torquemada 197583, 1:155 [bk. 2, chap. 19]). The battle for Azcapotzalco lasted 114 days until the Aztecs and their Tetzcoca and Huexotzinca allies defeated the Tepanecs (Ixtlilxóchitl 197577, 2:7980 [chap. 31]). And Ixtlilxochitl defended Tetzcoco from the Tepanecs for 50 days before he was killed and the city fell (Ixtlilxóchitl 197577, 2:4449 [chaps. 1719]). |
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71. For example, the Aztecs conquered Xochimilco in eleven days, the Tetzcocas conquered Acolman in three days, and the battle for Mazatlan was over by noon (Crónica mexicana 1975:553 [chap. 78]; Ixtlilxóchitl 197577, 1:378; Torquemada 197583, 1:207 [bk. 2, chap. 42]). |
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72. Cortés 1971:319 [letter 4]. |
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73. Acosta 1604, 2:484 [bk. 7, chap. 14], 485 [chap. 15], 496 [chap. 18]; Crónica mexicana 1975:404 [chap. 48], 52627 [chap. 72], 608 [chap. 91]; Dibble 1980, 1:91; Durán 1967, 2:429 [chap. 56]; Torquemada 197583, 1:198 [bk. 2, chap. 36], 1:2089 [bk. 2, chap. 42]. |
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74. Durán 1967, 2:128 [chap. 15]. |
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75. Durán 1967, 2:320 [chap. 41]. |
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76. Durán 1967, 2:273 [chap. 35]. |
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77. Durán 1967, 2:439 [chap. 58]. |
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78. Crónica mexicana 1975:584 [chap. 84]. |
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79. Crónica mexicana 1975:33537 [chap. 33]. |
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80. Crónica mexicana 1975:527 [chap. 72]. |
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81. In the Tepanec war, for example, the Tetzcocas burned all the defeated cities allied with the Tepanecs (Ixtlilxóchitl 197577, 2:42 [chap. 16]; Torquemada 197583, 1:155 [bk. 2, chap. 19]), and the Aztecs likewise burned Azcapotzalco (Durán 1967, 2:81 [chap. 9]). However, the people of Tzotzollan burned their own city and fled rather than submit to the Aztecs (Durán 1967, 2:437 [chap. 57]). When Ixtlilxochitl defeated the Tepanec puppet regime of his home city of Tetzcoco, he burned the entire town (Ixtlilxóchitl 197577, 2:80 [chap. 31]), and the Aztecs set fire to the town of Cuauhquechollan when they discovered the entry of a sizable force of Spaniards (Cortés 1971:151 [letter 2]). |
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82. Cortés 1971:254 [letter 3]. |
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83. For example, when Cortés encountered the city of Cuauhquechollan with a population of 5,000 to 6,000, it was encircled by a stone and mortar wall 7.3 meters (24 feet) high on the outside and almost level with the ground on the inside, and along the top there were battlements three feet high. Entry was gained through four gateways large enough for a horseman to enter, but each entrance had three or four turns and was protected by a battlement (Cortés 1971:153 [letter 2]). |
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Quetzaltepec was also encircled by defensive walls, but it had six rather than one. The outermost wall was 5 brazas wide and 3 wide (1 braza = 1.67 meters or 5.49 feet (Carrera Stampa 1949:10)), or about 8.4 meters (27.5 feet) high and 5 meters (16.5 feet) wide, as were the second, third, fourth, and fifth |
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