... use of alliances. Some of the importance alliances that he made was with the Cingapacinga and the Cempola in chapter 6, the Tlacaltens, which was mainly chapter 7 and 8, to having Panfilo de Narvaez and Narvaez's army join Cortes on his journey to capturing Tenochtitlan, which was in Chapter 11-14. One of Cortes' first alliance was with the Cingapacinga and the Cempola ... Cholula. This made it easy for Cortez to move on through to Tenoclitlan, because he was met with little to no resistance. In Chapter 11, Velázquez sends Panfilo de Narvaez with an army of his own to capture Cortes an...

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... a consequence for not obeying their original orders. Portilla writes that shortly after Montezuma's imprisonment, Cortes and his troops were forced to flee the area and engage in a battle with Panfilo de Narvaez, the Cuban governor, who was on terms to arrest Cortes for his offenses. Eventually able to persuade Panfilo to join his efforts as allies, Cortes now had the help ... Spaniards had caused to them. "They attacked as the Spaniards were fleeing down the causeway, and the route was so disastrous that it has been known ever since as ˜la noche triste,' the night of sorrows. " (Porti...

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