CHAPTER VI

.--Retreat to Otumba--Cortéz is encountered by a new

army of Aztecs and auxiliaries--Victory of the Spaniards at Otumba--Proposed re-alliance of Aztecs and Tlascalans--Forays of Cortéz--reduction of the eastern regions--Cortéz proposes the reconquest--sends off the disaffected--Cortéz settles the Tlascalan succession, 50

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