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Last stand at Tlatelolco
13 August 1521 — The defenders of Tenochtitlan made their last stand in Tlatelolco, where hunger, thirst and smallpox had killed tens of thousands. Cuauhtemoc, the last ruler, was captured on the lake. A plaque here calls the fall neither triumph nor defeat.
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