The meeting of Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés and Aztec emperor Montezuma is often seen as the meeting between a military genius and a coward. Drawing on rare primary sources and overlooked accounts by conquistadors and Aztecs alike, Restall supplies a new perspective on Cortés' and Montezuma's posthumous reputations and questions traditional views of history.
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