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The Conquest of Mexico.
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The Economist (US)
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November 13, 1993
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1993 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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"IF YOU do not free Montezuma soon, you will be properly killed and then cooked with chocolate . . . you who steal the gods of others." These fighting words are believed to have been uttered by a furious Aztec nearly five centuries ago during the heated battle for Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec empire. But he assured the conquistadors from Spain who had kidnapped the Aztec emperor that they, unlike their comrades seized earlier, would not be eaten: "We tried your flesh the other day and it tasted bitter."
Such vivid passages enliven an account of the conquest of Mexico by Hugh Thomas, a distinguished historian best known for his chronicle of the Spanish civil ...
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