1. Return to Tenochtitlan during uprising

    · Tenochtitlan, Mexico

    After confronting Pánfilo de Narváez's expedition, Cortés returned to Tenochtitlan amid a major uprising against the Spanish garrison. The linked conquest chronology dates the Spanish return to 24 June 1520, but the main biography does not specify the day.

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