New Spain

Among other massacres, the one that was initiated in Cholula, a big city with more than 30000 inhabitants, was a notable one. The people came out to welcome all the lords of the country and the earth; first of all came the priests with the head priest of the Christians in procession and received them with great respect and reverence, and took them to lodge in the center of the town, where they would reside in the houses of the most notable nobles. Soon after this, the Spaniards carried out a masscre as a punitive attack, in order to sow terror and apprehension, and to make a display of their power in every corener of that land. This was always the pattern: to commit a great massacre that would terrorize the tame flock and make it tremble.

The Spaniards had asked for five to six thousand Indians to carry their cargo. When all the Chiefs and burden bearers came, they were all bound and tied. At the closed doorways, armed guards took turns to see that none escaped. Then, at a command, all the Spaniards drrew their swords or pikes and while their chiefs looked on, helpless, all their people were butchered, cut to pieces. At the end of two or three days, some survivors came out from under the corpses, wouded but still alive. They went, weeping, to the Spaniards imploring mercy, which was denied. The Spaniards had no compassion but drove them back and cut them down. Then the chiefs, a total of more than hundred, who were already shackled, burned at the stakes that had been driven into the ground. But one of the caciques, managed to escape with twenty or thirty of his followers. They took refuge in the great temple that was there, which was like fortress, and was called Curu. The Spaniards set fire to the temple and burned them there as they cried out: "Oh, wicked men! What have we done against you? Why are you killing us? Go to the city of Mexico where our lord, Montezuma will revenge us!"

Spaniard carried another such massacre in the city of Tepeaca and then entered the city of Mexico. Great Montezuma sent them thousands of presents and an assmbly of chiefs and people celebrated fiestas on the road, and as the Spaniards reached the pavements of the city at a distance of two leagues, the great ruler sent them his own brother accompanied by many nobles, bearing gifts of gold and silver and rich garments. At the entrance of the city he himself greeted them and accompanied them to the palace in which he had arranged for them to be lodged. On the same day, Spaniards deceitfully captured the King and put him in chains.

The Indians, nobles and commoners alike, throughout the city, were celebrating fiesta, singing and dancing. The nobles donned their gala costumes to display their wealth, and some of these nobles were of royal lineage. Celebrating this fiesta were more than a thousand nobles, the flower of Indian youth, the elite of Montezuma's empire. The Spanish captain sent small teams of his men to all these fiestas. They pretended, initially as enjoying the fiesta and at a previously set time, they mercilessly attacked the fiestas simultaneously killing all the nobles and most of others. Other Indians rebelled and killed many Christians. In retaliations, Spaniards reinforced their stength and successfully contained the rebellion killing more number of Indians in the same way.