The Burning of the Ships
La quema de las naves
The soldiers wake to smoke on the horizon. The ships are already burning.
Bernal documents the morning Cortés burned the fleet — the men who protested by name, and the commander's speech reframing the destruction of their escape as the removal of a distraction. Two voices: the commander who cannot show doubt, and a soldier who had been planning to desert.
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