Hernán Cortés Quote

[The Aztecs] said that by no means would they give themselves up, for as long as one of them was left he would die fighting, and that we would get nothing of theirs because they would burn everything or throw it into the water.


Third Dispatch [May 15,1522]. To Charles V


[The Aztecs] said that by no means would they give themselves up, for as long as one of them was left he would die fighting, and that we would get...

[The Aztecs] said that by no means would they give themselves up, for as long as one of them was left he would die fighting, and that we would get...

[The Aztecs] said that by no means would they give themselves up, for as long as one of them was left he would die fighting, and that we would get...

[The Aztecs] said that by no means would they give themselves up, for as long as one of them was left he would die fighting, and that we would get...