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Battle of Otumba
On July 7, 1520, after the disaster of the Noche Triste, Cortés led his remnant east and was pursued by a large Aztec army on the plain of Otumba.…
Timeline
- 1520Road from Otumba to Teotihuacan · State of MexicoAfter the Noche Triste, Cortés led some four hundred Spanish soldiers and a small number of surviving allies east toward their Tlaxcalan allies, when Aztec pursuers caught up and attacked on the plain of Otumba.
- 1520Otumba battlefield · OtumbaCortés personally led the remaining cavalry in a charge toward the Aztec standards, killing the commander and capturing the banner, and the Aztec line collapsed. Though outnumbered, the Spanish won a decisive victory through cavalry charges and the shock of firearms.
Sources
- Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España — Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1632)
- Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old Mexico — Hugh Thomas (1993)