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History of Mexico, Volume 1, 1516-1521

Note 1151 — Chapter XXXIII · CONTINUATION OF THE SIEGE. June-July, 1521.

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This was the lieutenant of Velazquez at Habana, who joined Cortés during the Tepeaca campaign. Portillo was a soldier from the Italian wars. Bernal Diaz adds that one brig was captured, but this is doubtful. Hist. Verdad., 143; Clavigero, Storia Mess., iii. 214; Sahagun, Hist. Conq., 46.

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