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MEXICO SHALL BE CONQUERED!
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duty to himself and his people, he had no other desire but death."

Thus, on the 13th of August, 1521, ended one of the most cruel sieges recorded in history—the first experience which the heathen of this New World had with the so-called Christians of Europe.