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The Real Story of Montezuma, the Last of the Aztec Emperors
If Montezuma wasn't in fact a weakling or a coward, then why did he surrender immediately to Cortés and his army at that first meeting in ?
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The answer, of course, is that he didn't surrender at all. The earliest account of Montezuma's alleged surrender was written by Cortés himself, and was either a gross mistranslation or more likely a total fabrication to cover up the Spaniard's desperate situation.
First, some context.
Cortés wrote his account of the famous meeting with Montezuma a year after it happened. By , the Spanish were at an absolute low point in their bloody war with the Aztecs. Montezuma was dead, Cortés had lost two-thirds of his men fleeing Tenochtitlán, and the Spanish had taken refuge with the Tlaxcaltecs, the Aztecs' traditional enemy.
Cortés was also on the lam, wanted for mutiny by the Spanish colonial authorities in Cuba.
It was at this precarious moment that Cortés sat down and wrote a letter to Kin