He was enjoying a recent military victory at the hot springs in Cajamarca when a force of 180 men arrived to take him hostage.
Though he was to be burned at the stake, Vincente de Valverde converted him on his death-bed and he was strangled instead. He was enjoying a recent military victory at the hot springs in Cajamarca when a force of 180 men arrived to take him hostage. The son of an Ecuadorian princess, he ruled the Northern part of his empire until his victory over Huascar in 1532 consolidated the empire, but his supreme rule was cut short by the former governor of Panama, Francisco Pizarro. FTP identify this 13th and last emperor of the Incan empire.
Though he was to be burned at the stake, Vincente de Valverde converted him on his death-bed and he was strangled instead.
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