Conquistador: Francisco Pizarro and the Conquest of the Inca Empire

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The gripping, shocking and almost fantastic story of the way a couple of hundred Spaniards subdued the millions of the Inca Empire. Under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro, Spanish soldiers numbering between as few as 80 and never more than 500, overcame vast Inca armies numbering within the hundreds of thousands through a combination of superior technology, better tactics and the fewer appealing methods of murder and outright deceit. This work details Pizarro’s first two failed attempts to invade the Inca Empire; the daring capture of the Incan emperor Atahulpa on the Battle of Cajamarca; the “ransom of gold”; Atahualpa’s brutal execution, and the seizure and subsequent dramatic battles across the of the Incan capital city of Cuzco. Pizarro and his fellow conquistador Diego Almagro fell out with one some other, sparking off a war between two Spanish factions which ended within the defeat and execution of Almagro in 1541. Pizarro met his own end by the hands of Almargo’s son, and used to be laid to rest within the Cathedral of Lima.

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