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INTRODUCTION In 1519, in the mountain valley of Tenochtitlan, high above Mexico City, Montezuma met Cortés. It was a volcanic clash that resounded throughout the world. During many centuries of tribulation and changing power in the land, the coolis cooked on. In the course of preparing their...

CHAPTER / A FOREWORD AND APOLOGY A Necessary Exposition of Circumstances Permitting a Certain Incorrect Liberty in the Penning of This Memoir EORGE WILLIAM APLEY was born in the house of his maternal grandfather, William Leeds Hancock, on the steeper part of Mount Vernon Street, on Beacon...