Hernán Cortés on Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms
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“They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us...”
“So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound...”
“Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.”
“These Aztecs then came and I told them to observe how they could not triumph, and how each day we did them great harm and killed many of them and we were burning and destroying their city.”
“...and our allies fighting with us were armed with swords and bucklers, and slaughtered so many of them on land and in the water that more than forty thousand were killed or taken that day.”
“For I assure Your Majesty that if God had not mysteriously assisted us and the victory had gone to Narváez, it would have been the greatest harm that Spaniards had done to each other for a long time past.”