Note 720 — Chapter XXII · ALVARADO’S MERCILESS MASSACRE. May, 1520.
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‘Envié otros docientos hombres á la villa de la Veracruz.’ Cortés, Cartas, 125. Clavigero assumes that Cortés at this time already gave orders for removing Villa Rica southward, but events interfered with the project. Storia Mess., iii. 120.