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HISTORY OF MEXICO. 



thrown towards them by the Mexicans, to difpirit them, 

 and when they heard a report that the commanders Al- 

 varado and Sandoval were flain. From the fquare they 

 proceeded by the road of Iztapalapan, to their camp, ftill 

 purfued by a multitude of the enemy. 



Alvarado and Sandoval had made an effort to enter 

 into the fquare of the market by a road, which led from 

 that of Tiacopan to Tlatelolco, and had advanced their 

 operations fo far as to a poft at a little diftance from that 

 fquare, but upon feeing the facrifices of the Spaniards, 

 and having heard the Mexicans fay, that Cortes and his 

 captains were killed, they retired, though with the 

 greateft difficulty ; for the enemy, with whom they had 

 been engaged, were joined by thofe who had defeated 

 the troops of Cortes. 



The lofs fuflained by the beliegers on that day was 

 feven horfes, a number of arms and boats, and a piece of 

 artillery, upwards of one thoufand "allies, and more than 

 fixty Spaniards, part killed in battle, part made prifoners, 

 and immediately facriflced in the greater Temple of Tla- 

 telolco, in fight of the troops of Alvarado. Cortes re- 

 ceived a wound in his leg, and hardly one of the be- 

 fiegers came off without being either wounded or other- 

 wife difcomfited. 



The Mexicans celebrated the vi&ory for eight fuccef- 

 five days with illuminations and mufic in their temples ; 

 they fpread the fame of it through all the kingdom, and 

 fent the heads of the Spaniards through all the provinces 

 of the empire who had rebelled again!! the crown, to recall 

 them to obedience, to which many were induced. They 

 dug the ditches again, repaired the intrenchments, and 

 put the city, excepting the temples and houfes ruined by 



the 



