ABSTRACT
The city of Tezcuco was the best position, probably, which Hernando Cortes could have chosen for the headquarters of the army. The enemy retreated in disorder, closely followed by the Spaniards. When they had arrived within half a league of Iztapalapan, they observed a number of canoes filled with Indians, who appeared to be labouring on the mole which hemmed in the waters of the salt lake. Cortes, supported by his own men, and by such of the allies as could be brought to obey his orders, attacked the enemy in this last place of their retreat. The expedition of Cortes, notwithstanding the disasters which checkered it, was favourable to the Spanish cause. While these occurrences were passing, Cortes received the welcome intelligence that the brigantines were completed and waiting to be transported to Tezcuco. The field is traversed by the road which at this day leads from the last-mentioned city to Tezcuco.
