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    Battle of Cajamarca also spelled Cajamalca (though many contemporary scholars prefer to call it Massacre of Cajamarca) was the ambush and seizure of the...
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    Cajamarca (Spanish pronunciation: [kaxaˈmaɾka]), also known by the Quechua name, Kashamarka, is the capital and largest city of the Cajamarca Region as...
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    Francisco Pizarro (category Year of birth uncertain)
    Miguel de Piura. After a series of manoeuvres, Pizarro captured the Incan emperor Atahualpa at the Battle of Cajamarca in November 1532. A ransom for the...
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    Battle of Cajamarca. It was the first step in a long campaign that took decades of fighting but ended in Spanish victory in 1572 and colonization of the...
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    Peru (redirect from Republic of Peru)
    the Battle of Cajamarca. After years of preliminary exploration and military conflicts, it was the first step in a long campaign that took decades of fighting...
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    captured in the ensuing Battle of Cajamarca. While holding Atahualpa in custody, Pizarro told him he would have Huáscar brought to Cajamarca and would determine...
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    Chalcuchima (category Year of birth missing)
    35,000 in the Jauja Valley, that he was called to Cajamarca by Atahualpa after the Battle of Cajamarca. Chalcuchimac was also arrested by the Spaniards...
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    Atahualpa (category Monarchies of South America)
    group of Spanish conquistadors, led by Francisco Pizarro, arrived in the region. In November, they captured Atahualpa during an ambush at Cajamarca. In...
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    1532 Battle of Quipaipan 1525 — 1572 Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire 1525 Battle of Punta Quemada 1531 Battle of Puná 1532 Battle of Cajamarca 1533...
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    the first major naval battle of World War II took place in the South Atlantic close to the continental mainland: the Battle of the River Plate, between...
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