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Launch of Cortés’s brigantines (1521)

On the Norse and Aztecs map as “The brigantines”

28 April 1521 — Thirteen brigantines, sailing ships built in Tlaxcala under Martín López with Indigenous carpenters and carried in pieces over the mountains, were launched at Texcoco. They gave the besiegers control of the lake and broke through Nezahualcoyotl’s dike.

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Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521
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Map showing Launch of Cortés’s brigantines (1521), turning point in Climate and Innovation: The Norse and the Aztecs, c. 790–1521
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