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...study in English of the Spanish Civil War, has taken the heady risk of challenging a landmark of 19th century American historiography: William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843). Thomas' account is richer in detail than Prescott's, more balanced in its assessment of the Mexica (pronounced mesheeca; the author insists that this is a more authentic name for the conquered people than Aztec). But Prescott's narrative has a grace and flow that Conquest simply cannot match -- not least because in the latter work countless sentences contain a hedging "presumably," "perhaps" or "it must have...
...months later, he and his bedraggled company of 300 soldiers entered the Mexican capital of Tenochtitlan, a city more grand and imposing than any in Europe except Naples or Constantinople. Cortes managed to take the emperor Montezuma II hostage, but after Montezuma died during an uprising of the Mexica, apparently from wounds inflicted by his own people, the Spaniards were driven from the city. The undaunted Cortes returned with a larger force that included disaffected Indian vassals of the Mexica. In the course of a brutal seige, Tenochtitlan and the old Mexican empire were destroyed...
...Mexica far outnumbered the Spaniards, and the two peoples were equally bloodthirsty, but in the end, Thomas demonstrates, superior technology enabled the Spanish to prevail. The Mexica fought with lances and swords that were designed to wound, not kill. The Spanish had crossbows, harquebuses and armor- clad horses, none of which the natives had ever seen. The Spanish had two other advantages: a tactician of genius in Cortes and smallpox, which devastated an Indian population which had never previously been exposed...
Five more of the Super-Schmidt Meteor Cameras will be built for research projects in New Mexica and Canada and for use by the U.S. Army...
After Marichal left his native Spain in 1938, he studied in France, Algiers, Mexica, and the United States, receiving a Ph. D. from Princeton. At present he is writing a book on Spain...