Cortés scuttles his fleet
1519 · Event
To end the muttering about returning to Cuba, Cortés has his ships stripped and run aground at Veracruz — not burned, whatever the legend says, but the point is identical: there is now no way home except through Tenochtitlan. Five hundred men march inland.
On these timelines: Conquest of the Aztec Empire, Pre-Columbian Americas, Latin America, Master, Spain
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