In the Aztec military, tlacateccatl () was a title roughly equivalent to

general A general officer is an Officer (armed forces), officer of highest military ranks, high rank in the army, armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers t ...

. The tlacateccatl was in charge of the ''tlacatecco'', a military quarter in the center of the Aztec capital,

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. In wartime he was second-in-command to the ''

tlatoani ''Tlatoani'' ( , "one who speaks, ruler"; plural ' or tlatoque) is the Classical Nahuatl term for the ruler of an , a pre-Hispanic state. It is the noun form of the verb "tlahtoa" meaning "speak, command, rule". As a result, it has been various ...

'' ("ruler", "king") and the ''

tlacochcalcatl Tlacochcalcatl ( "The man from the house of darts") was an Aztec military title or rank; roughly equivalent to the modern title of field marshal. In Aztec warfare the ''tlacochcalcatl'' was second in command only to the ''tlatoani'' and he usual ...

'' ("high general"). The tlacateccatl was always a member of the military order of the '' Cuachicqueh'', "the shorn ones". Codex Mendoza fol

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