Event

Killing of Huascar

Huascar was put to death while a prisoner; Pedro Pizarro and Salcamayhua both say Atahualpa ordered it.

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How each side tells it

Huascar was put to death while a prisoner; Pedro Pizarro and Salcamayhua both say Atahualpa ordered it.

Connections 4

Huascar According to Pedro Pizarro Primary record 1
Atahualpa According to Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamayhua Primary record 2
In Pedro Pizarro's telling Atahualpa first wept to Pizarro, then, once assured of his own life, sent the order.

Proof 2 sources

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
sent a messenger to Challicuchima [with orders] that Guascar be slain at once, and so they killed him at Guambos
My captains, without my knowing of it, have slain him, and for this reason I am in the understanding that you will now kill me.
An Account of the Antiquities of Peru, by Juan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti-yamqui Salcamayhua, in Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the Yncas (English translation by Clements R. Markham, Hakluyt Society, 1873), Hakluyt Society, London (scan on the Internet Archive), 1873. Primary record
This Atahuallpa sent messages to Antamarca with orders that Huascar should be killed

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