ABSTRACT
The Mexicans, during the day which followed the retreat of the Spaniards, remained, for the most part, quiet in their own capital, where they found occupation in cleansing the streets and causeways from the dead, which lay festering in heaps that might have bred a pestilence. The monuments of San Juan Teotihuacan are, with the exception of the temple of Cholula, on the Mexican soil. On the seventh morning, the army had reached the mountain rampart which overlooks the plains of Otompan, or Otumba, as commonly called, from the Indian city—now a village—situated in them. As the army was climbing the mountain steeps which shut in the Valley of Otompan, the vedettes came in with the intelligence that a powerful body was encamped on the other side, apparently awaiting their approach. The tide of battle was setting rapidly against the Christians. Such was the famous battle of Otompan,—or Otumba, as commonly called, from the Spanish corruption of the name.
