Note 840 — Chapter XXVI · LA NOCHE TRISTE. June 30, 1520.
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‘Durò poco este nombre, pues tampoco les convenia à los muertos, que iban cargados de Oro.’ Monarq. Ind., i. 504. Zamacois describes the site as he found it not long ago. Hist. Méj., iii. 421-3. Bernal Diaz implies that the ‘martyr’ name was given in honor of those captured and sacrificed during the siege, a year later. Hist. Verdad., 153.