Note 1025 — Chapter XXX · CONSTRUCTION OF THE FLEET. December, 1520-February, 1521.
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If any there were who followed not of their free-will they should remain behind. He had enough men as it was. The lords replied that they would rather be drowned in the lake than return without victory. Torquemada, i. 526. On this occasion may have been presented to the Tlascaltec battalion the red damask banner, bearing on one side the crowned image of the virgin with the hands uplifted in prayer, and on the other the royal arms of Castile and Leon, a banner which Boturini obtained possession of with proofs of its genuineness. Catálogo, 75. Yet this design appears to belong to a standard borne by the Spaniards on entering the conquered Mexico.