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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: better was a chain shirt which came from the body of a Spanish
cavalier. For many years I always wore this shirt beneath my
cotton mail, and it saved my life more than once, for even bullets
would not pierce the two of them.
I had taken over the command of my archers but forty-eight hours, a
scant time in which to teach them discipline whereof they had
little, though they were brave enough, when the occasion came to
use them in good earnest, and with it the night of disaster that is
still known among the Spaniards as the noche triste. On the
afternoon before that night a council was held in the palace at
which I spoke, saying, I was certain that the Teules thought of
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