Two years later, on 9 February 1526, a group of sixteen Spanish deserters burnt the palace of the Ahpo Xahil, sacked the temples and kidnapped a priest, acts that the Kaqchikel blamed on Pedro de Alvarado.Schele & Mathews 1999, pp. 298, 310, 386n19.Recinos 1998, p. 19. gives sixty deserters. The Kaqchikel kept up resistance against the Spanish for a number of years. On 9 May 1530, exhausted by the warfare that had seen the deaths of their best warriors and the enforced abandonment of their crops,Polo Sifontes 1986, p. 92. the two kings of the most important clans returned from the wilds. A day later they were joined by many nobles and their families and many more people; they then surrendered at the new Spanish capital at Ciudad Vieja.
Two years later on 9 February 1526 a group of sixteen Spanish deserters burnt the palace of the Ahpo Xahil sacked the temples and kidnapped a priest acts that the Kaqchikel blamed on Pedro de AlvaradoSchele & Mathews 1999 pp 298 310 386n19Recinos 1998 p 19 gives sixty deserters The Kaqchikel kept up resistance against the Spanish for a number of years On 9 May 1530 exhausted by the warfare that had seen the deaths of their best warriors and the enforced abandonment of their cropsPolo Sifontes 1986 p 92 the two kings of the most important clans returned from the wilds A day later they were joined by many nobles and their families and many more people; they then surrendered at the new Spanish capital at Ciudad Vieja