Place
Cajamarca
Highland town in northern Peru where Pizarro's men took Atahualpa in November 1532.
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Highland town in northern Peru where Pizarro’s men took Atahualpa in November 1532.
Connections 4
involved in
- Atahualpa taken at Cajamarca Primary record 1
- Division of the ransom According to Francisco de Xerez Primary record 1
- Execution of Atahualpa According to Francisco de Xerez Primary record 1
- Ransom of Atahualpa According to Francisco de Xerez Primary record 1
Proof 1 source
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Reports on the Discovery of Peru: I. Report of Francisco de Xeres, secretary to Francisco Pizarro (English translation by Clements R. Markham, Hakluyt Society, 1872), Hakluyt Society, London (scan on the Internet Archive), 1872.
Primary record
on Friday, the 15th of November, 1532, at the hour of vespers
the Royal fifth amounted to 262,259 pesos of pure gold. Of the silver there were 51,610 marcs, of which 10,121 marcs of silver formed the Royal fifth.
sentenced Atabaliba to death
I will give gold enough to fill a room twenty-two feet long and seventeen wide, up to a white line which is half way up the wall.
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