Person

Francisco Pizarro

Spanish captain who led the party that took Atahualpa at Cajamarca in 1532.

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Spanish captain who led the party that took Atahualpa at Cajamarca in 1532.

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Atahualpa taken at Cajamarca 16 Nov 1532 led the Spaniards Primary record 1
Execution of Atahualpa Jul 1533 pronounced the sentence, in Xerez; against his will, in Pedro Pizarro According to Francisco de Xerez According to Pedro Pizarro Primary record 1

Atahualpa taken at Cajamarca According to Francisco de Xerez Primary record 1
Atahualpa taken at Cajamarca Primary record 1
The muster before the march, not the count in the plaza.
Division of the ransom According to Francisco de Xerez Primary record 1
Execution of Atahualpa According to Francisco de Xerez Primary record 1
Execution of Atahualpa According to Pedro Pizarro Primary record 2
Pedro Pizarro was Pizarro's cousin; his account puts the blame on others.
Ransom of Atahualpa According to Francisco de Xerez Primary record 1
Xerez adds, in a line the scan garbles, that Pizarro told him to send for the metal and that once it came he need have no fear.

Timeline 2 dates

16 Nov 1532 Francisco Pizarro intervened in Atahualpa taken at Cajamarca
Jul 1533 Francisco Pizarro intervened in Execution of Atahualpa According to Francisco de XerezAccording to Pedro Pizarro

Proof 2 sources

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
The Governor then mustered sixty-two horsemen and one hundred and two foot soldiers.
sentenced Atabaliba to death
fearlessly seized him by the arm, crying out Santiago. Then the guns were fired off
The horsemen each received 8,880 pesos of gold and 362 marcs of silver.
he should die by burning, unless he became a Christian
this execution was for the security of the Christians, the good of the whole land, and to secure its conquest and pacification
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.
Relation of the Discovery and Conquest of the Kingdoms of Peru by Pedro Pizarro, volume 1 (English translation by Philip Ainsworth Means, Cortes Society, 1921), The Cortes Society, New York (scan on the Internet Archive), 1921. Primary record
against his will he sentenced Atabalipa to death, commanding that they give him the garrote

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