Cortes' Expedition Force included 11 ships, about 100 sailors, 530 soldiers (including 30 crossbowmen and 12 with arquebusses), a doctor, several carpenters, at least eight women, a few hundred Cuban Indian servants and some African freedmen and slaves, a Mayan-speaking Indian fisherman previously captured in the Yucatan, ten large cannon, four small field guns, many savage war dogs, and the secret weapon, 16 horses. Top Image: A Spanish crossbowman