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A hand-coloured 1524 woodcut showing Tenochtitlan surrounded by a lake and linked to its shore by causeways, beside a separate Gulf of Mexico map.

Tenochtitlan 1521: A City Besieged by Land and Water

The siege of Tenochtitlan was a war of Indigenous alliances, shipbuilding, broken water supplies, and determined resistance in a city already scarred by epidemic.

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