... cavalry, and 840 footsoldiers, mostly musqueteers and crossbow-men, of which he took the command in person. He sailed with thisCHAPTER V. 107great armament from Jamaica, on the 24th June 1523, ... collected a force of above 70,000 warriors, with which they fought two battlesagainst Cortes in the course of a few days, in which three Spaniards, four horses, and above a hundredMexicans were slain; ... was another district of the Tzapotecas called Xaltepec, which was then at war with aCHAPTER V. 1 04 neighbouring tribe, and who immediately, on being summoned by Sandoval, sent a deputation of their...