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THE
BATTLE AND THE RUINS
OF CINTLA
BY
DANIEL G. BRINTON, M. D., LL. D., D. Sc.
PROFESSOR OF
AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND LINGUISTICS IN THE UNIVERSITY
OF PENNSYLVANIA
[
REPRINTED FROM THE
AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN,
SEPTEMBER, 1896
]
CHICAGO
1896
THE BATTLE AND THE RUINS OF CINTLA.
By Daniel G. Brinton, M. D.
The first battle on the American continent in which horses were used was that of Cintla in Tabasco, March, 1519, the European troops being under the leadership of Hernando Cortes.
This fact attaches something more than an ordinary historic interest to the engagement, at least enough to make it desirable to ascertain its precise locality and its proper name. Both of these are in doubt, as well as the ethnic stock to which the native tribe belonged which opposed the Spanish soldiery on the occasion. I propose to submit these questions to a re-examination, and also to describe from unpublished material the ruins which,—as I believe—, mark the spot of this first important encounter of the two races on American soil.
The engagement itself has been described by all the historians of Cortes’ famous
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