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During La Noche Triste, many of Cortez's men were killed while escaping across the causeways or captured alive in palaces and subsequently sacrificed.
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“because so many of his men are left behind.”
“They're either killed as they try to escape the city across the causeways or forced to retreat back to the palaces, and they're taken alive and sacrificed subsequently.”Play from 16:21Report a misattribution
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