Dylan Matthews

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This time, the Spanish even used their guns, which were really tiny cannons that couldn’t be aimed well but could scatter grapeshot with deadly effect. “The enemy was so massed and numerous,” commented one of the Spaniards later, “that every shot wrought havoc among them.”43 Many dozens of Tlaxcalan men died that day, each one swept up into the arms of his comrades
Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs
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