Hernando Cortes War Quotations

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.

So loud was the wailing of the women and children that there was not one man among us whose heart did not bleed at the sound...

Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.

It was so wonderful that I do not know how to describe this first glimpse of things never heard of, seen or dreamed of before...

They no longer had nor could find any arrows, javelins or stones with which to attack us...