Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) Montezuma Edition THE WORKS OF WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT TWENTY-TWO VOLUMES VOL. IV _The Montezuma Edition of William H. Prescott’s Works is limited to one thousand copies, of which this is_ No. 345 [Illustration: GUATEMOZIN BROUGHT BEFORE CORTÉS Page 102] _Montezuma Edition_ HISTORY OF THE Conquest of Mexico BY WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT EDITED BY WILFRED HAROLD MUNRO PROFESSOR OF EUROPEAN HISTORY IN BROWN UNIVERSITY AND COMPRISING THE NOTES OF THE EDITION BY JOHN FOSTER KIRK Victrices aquilas alium laturus in orbem. LUCAN. Pharsalia, lib. v., v. 238 VOL. IV PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY Copyright, 1843, by WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT Copyright, 1871, by WILLIAM G. PRESCOTT Copyright, 1873, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. Copyright, 1904, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY Electrotyped and Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U. S. A. CONTENTS OF VOL. IV BOOK VI SIEGE AND SURRENDER OF MEXICO (CONTINUED) CHAPTER V INDIAN FLOTILLA DEFEATED--OCCUPATION OF THE CAUSEWAYS--DESPERATE ASSAULTS--FIRING ON THE PALACES--SPIRIT OF THE BESIEGED--BARRACKS FOR THE TROOPS PAGE Sandoval marches on Iztapalapan 3 Cortés takes Command of the Fleet 3 Indian Flotilla defeated 5 Cortés occupies Xoloc 6 Sandoval advances to Cojohuacan 7 Skirmishes on the Causeway 8 Blockade completed 9 Simultaneous Assaults on Mexico 9 Ramparts raised by the Aztecs 10 Brigantines enfilade the Causeway 10 Spaniards enter the City 12 Allies demolish the Buildings 12