Which Spaniard led an expedition which reached Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital in 1519?
Massacre in the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan Sad Night (La Noche Triste), losing most of their men, who were either killed in the battle or were captured and sacrificed. This is part of the Aztec account: Spanish Historian Francisco López de Gómara's, who was never in the Americas, account: Massacre in the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan The Massacre in the Great Temple, also called the Alvarado Massacre, was an event on May 22, 1520, in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan during the Spanish conquest of Mexico, in which the celebration of the Feast of Toxcatl ended in a massacre of Aztec elites. While Hernán Cortés was in Tenochtitlan,
Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire set sail, thus beginning the expedition of exploration and conquest. The Spanish campaign against the Aztec Empire had its final victory on August 13, 1521, when a coalition army of Spanish forces and native Tlaxcalan warriors led by Cortés and Xicotencatl the Younger captured the emperor Cuauhtemoc and Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire. The fall of Tenochtitlan marks the beginning of Spanish rule in central Mexico, and they established their capital of Mexico City on the ruins of Tenochtitlan. Cortés made alliances with tributaries city-states ("altepetl") of the Aztec Empire as well as their political rivals, particularly the