S5E208 - The Noche Triste: Cortés's Night of Tears

In this episode, Lucas and Luna revisit one of the most dramatic turning points in the fall of Tenochtitlan: the Noche Triste, the night of June 30, 1520, when Hernán Cortés and his allied forces fled the Aztec capital under a hail of stones and arrows. They explore the events leading up to the escape, from the massacre in the Main Temple to the death of Moctezuma, and the desperate retreat along the Tacuba causeway. Lucas unpacks the legendary details—the gold that weighed down the fleeing soldiers, the fallen bridge at Xoloco, the tree where Cortés wept—and sep...