Regional1519

Battle of Potonchan

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Mexico

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Potonchan (1519), part of the Spanish Conquest of Mexico. Spain defeated Chontal Mayans.

Belligerents2

Spain
Chontal Mayans

ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)

Conflict graph

PART OFSpanish Conquest of Mexico

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Potonchan (1519). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-potonchan · Sources & methodology