Editing Aztec warfare (section)

== Spanish eyewitness description of Aztec warriors ==
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It is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to see them in their battle array because they keep formation wonderfully and are very handsome. Among them are extraordinarily brave men who face death with absolute determination. I saw one of them defend himself courageously against two swift horses, and another against three and four, and when the Spanish horseman could not kill him one of the horsemen in desperation hurled his lance, which the Aztec caught in the air, and fought with him for more than an hour until two-foot soldiers approached and wounded him with two or three arrows. He turned on one of the soldiers but the other grasped him from behind and stabbed him. During combat, they sing and dance and sometimes give the wildest shouts and whistles imaginable, especially when they know they have the advantage. Anyone facing them for the first can be terrified by their screams and their ferocity.<ref>Hassig, Ross. ''Aztec Warfare: Imperial Expansion and Political Control''. [[University of Oklahoma Press]] (1995). {{ISBN|978-0-806-12773-6}} p. 124, quoting from the [[Narrative of Some Things of New Spain and of the Great City of Temestitan]] by an anonymous conquistador.</ref>}}