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Cuauhtémoc

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Cuauhtémoc , d. 1525, Aztec emperor. Succeeding the brother of Montezuma II in 1520, Cuauhtémoc failed to unite the native city-states of the Valley of Mexico against the Spanish after the expulsion of Hernán Cortés from Tenochtitlán . He courageously defended his capital, but was taken prisoner when it fell (1521) after a three-month siege. Tortured to reveal his treasure, Cuauhtémoc replied that it lay at the bottom of the lake—where the Spaniards had perished with it in their flight from Tenochtitlán on the noche triste [sad night]. Cortés took Cuauhtémoc with him on his march to Honduras and, accusing the Aztec of treason, had him hanged. His name occurs also as Cuauhtemoctzín, Guatémoc, Guatemozín, and Quauhtémoc.


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Quauhtémoc
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Guatémoc
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...sending expeditions over most of Mexico and into N Central America. In 1524-26, Cortés himself went to Honduras, killing Cuauhtémoc , the Aztec emperor, in the course of the expedition. Later Career In Cortés's absence his enemies at home gradually triumphed... Read more
Lázaro Cárdenas
...years after World War II. Bibliography: See biography by W. Townsend (2d ed. 1979); study by J. C. Ashby (1967). His son Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano , 1934-, seen since the 1980s as his father's political heir, held posts within the ruling Institutional... Read more
Montezuma
...killed, although whether by the Spanish or the Aztec is not certain. His successor died a few months later and was replaced by Cuauhtémoc . Montezuma's name is linked by a legend to fabulous treasures that the Spanish appropriated and presumably lost at sea... Read more

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