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It was the Explorer and conquistador Spanish Peru and founder of Lima. His sword is hand forged carbon steel. Son of Captain Gonzalo Pizarro, from a very young participated in local wars between Lordships and accompanied his father in the wars of Italy.

Francisco Pizarro (Trujillo, Spain, 1478-Lima, 1541)

And 1502, embarked in the fleet carrying India Nicholas of Ovando, the new Governor of Hispaniola. Restless and strong character man, failed to adapt to the coloniser sedentary life, why we decided to participate in the expedition of Alonso de Ojeda explored Central America (1510) then the of Vasco Núñez de Balboa who discovered the Pacific Ocean (1513).

Francisco Pizarro sword

Between 1519 y 1523, Sin embargo, He settled in Panama City, which was Alderman, encomendero y alcalde, allowing it to be enhanced. Aware of the rumors of the existence of great wealth in the Inca Empire, decided to join the fortune that had amassed with Diego de Almagro to finance two expeditions of conquest (1524-1525 y 1526-1528), culminated with two failures.and

Because of the hardships suffered in the second attempt, Pizarro withdrew to the island of the Gallo with twelve men, While Almagro to Panama for reinforcements. The 'fame thirteen' used to explore part of the West coast of South America, region called Peru, perhaps by the proximity of the Virú River, and they had evidence of the existence of a great civilisation. However, the refusal of the Governor of Panama to grant more men to Almagro, and 1529 Pizarro traveled to Spain to expose their plans to King Charles I, who, in the capitulations of Toledo (26 in July of 1529), appointed him Governor, Captain general and ahead of the new lands, This Royal designation that caused the suspicion and the frustration of Almagro.

Back in Panama (1530), Pizarro prepared a new expedition of conquest, in January of 1531 embarked with a contingent of 180 hombres y 37 horses to Peru. Informed of the war between the inca Emperor Atahualpa with his brother Huáscar, the 16 in November of 1532 in the city of Cajamarca, Spanish conquistador met with Atahualpa and, After urging him unsuccessfully to abrazase Christianity and submit to the authority of Charles I, captured it in a bloody attack by surprise.

The inca agreed with foreigners fill for gold, Silver and precious stones a room in exchange for his freedom, but nothing served you to fulfil their part of the Pact, pues Pizarro, reinforced by the arrival of Almagro in front of hundreds of Arquebusiers, accused to have ordered the assassination of Huáscar from prison and to prepare a revolt against the Spanish Atahualpa and ordered his execution, who turned the 29 in August of 1533. Then allied with the inca nobility, which allowed him to complete the conquest of Peru without hardly resistance, starting from Cuzco, the capital of the Empire (November of 1533), y nombrar emperador a Manco Cápac II, brother Huáscar.

Shortly after, Pizarro and Almagro enemistaron for possession of Cuzco, and if well first joined forces to quell the indigenous rebellion led by Manco Capac against Spanish rule (1536), eventually face openly at the battle of las Salinas, in April of 1538. Derrotado y prisionero, Almagro was prosecuted, sentenced to death and executed by Hernando Pizarro, brother of the Conqueror (8 in July of 1538).

Revenge of the supporters of Almagro, led by his son, There was the 26 in June of 1541, date that Pizarro was assassinated in his palace of Lima, six years earlier he had founded on the banks of the Rímac River City.

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