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The second division was placed under the orders of Captain Carillo, and consisted of the monitors Manco Capac and Atahualpa, bought from the United States, each of 2100 tons; and the Chalaco, a transport of 1000 tons displacement.
When he had expounded all these doctrines, he called upon Atahualpa to embrace the Christian religion, to recognize the supreme authority of the Pope, and to submit to the King of Castille as his legitimate sovereign.
Filled with sanguine expectations of a rich booty, Almagro began his march for Chili in the end of the year 1535, with an army of 570 Spaniards, and accompanied by 15,000 Peruvians, under the command of Paullu , the brother of the Inca Manco, the nominal emperor of Peru, who had succeeded to Atahualpa and Huasear.
Atahualpa, being found guilty, was condemned to be burnt alive; but as he had at length asked to be baptized, that he might rid himself of the importunities of Valverde, his enemies contented themselves with strangling him. A worthy counterpart this, of Guatimozin's execution!
As the poor Inca stood bound to the stake, with the fagots of his funeral pile heaped around him, Valverde, the Dominican friar, made a last appeal to him to accept the cross and be baptized, promising him a less painful death if he would consent. The Inca, shrinking from the horror of the flames, consented, and was duly baptized under the name of Juan de Atahualpa.
He was roused from his somewhat moody reverie by the boom of a great gun, and, looking up, he saw a cloud of white smoke hanging over the Huascar, which had been the first ship to fire, while a brilliant flash of flame on board the monitor Atahualpa showed where the death- dealing shell had struck and exploded.
The paths above were fit for none, save a chamois, or a barefooted Indian, or a sailor for the midshipman was climbing aloft in such places, that Tom's chief work was to summon him back, in horror lest he should involve himself in endless galleries, excavated before the days of Atahualpa. Much of the desperate scrambling which Madison recommended as plain-sailing, was beyond Mr.
The armies of Atahualpa, led by two famous soldiers called Quiz-Quiz and Chalcuchima, had met and defeated the troops of Huascar in a series of bloody battles. They had taken that unhappy monarch prisoner and, by a series of terrible massacres instigated by Atahualpa, had striven with large success to cut off the family of the unfortunate Inca root and branches.
The triple alliance Francisco Pizarro and his brothers Don Diego d'Almagro First attempts Peru, its extent, people, and kings Capture of Atahualpa, his ransom and death Pedro d'Alvarado Almagro in Chili Strife among the conquerors Trial and execution of Almagro Expeditions of Gonzalo Pizarro and Orellana Assassination of Francisco Pizarro Rebellion and execution of his brother Gonzalo.
He started in February 1531 with a small force of 180 men, of whom thirty-six were horsemen. Adopting the policy of Cortes, he pushed directly for the capital Cuzco, where they managed to seize Atahualpa, the Inca of the time.
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