Cortés defeats the Narváez expedition
1520 · Event
Cuba sends nineteen ships to arrest Cortés; he night-marches to the coast, routs the much larger force, and recruits it — returning to Tenochtitlan with his army tripled. But the deputy he left behind, Alvarado, has massacred the festival crowd in his absence, and the city is in arms.
On these timelines: Conquest of the Aztec Empire, Pre-Columbian Americas, Latin America, Master, Spain
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