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Battle of Otumba

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Otumba · Valley of Mexico

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

On 7 July 1520, days after the disastrous Spanish retreat from Tenochtitlan (La Noche Triste), Hernan Cortes's battered force and Tlaxcalan allies defeated a large Aztec army on the plain near Otumba, allowing Cortes to regroup and eventually return to besiege the Aztec capital.

Belligerents2

Spanish Empire and Tlaxcalan allies
Aztec Empire

ON THE MAPAztec Empire

Conflict graph

PART OFSpanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire

Sources

Wikipedia: Battle of Otumba
Hassig, Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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