Chronicles
20 min
The Aztec Siege the World Forgot
An 18-year-old, a starving city, and the 80-day war that almost broke Cortés.
The fall of the Aztec Empire is usually told as a swift collapse. It wasn't. The siege of Tenochtitlán was an 80-day urban war where the defenders adapted, counterattacked, and nearly broke the invaders, and the real story is more brutal and more impressive than the myth.
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