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Francisco Pizarro was born around 1471 or 1476. He was born in Trujillo, Spain. He was the son of Gonzalo Pizarro.
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in 1502 he went to Hispaniola (modern Haiti and Dominican Republic) with the new governor of the Spanish colony. In this mission it was a "fail". This is because they went no further than Columbia.
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in 1510 he enrolled in an expedition of the explorer Alonso de Ojeda to Urabá in Colombia. He appears to have been marked out as a hard, silent, and apparently unambitious man who could be trusted in difficult situations.
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From 1519 to 1523 he was mayor and magistrate of the newly founded town of Panamá, accumulating a small fortune.
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It was not until 1523, when he was some 48 years old, that Pizarro embarked upon the adventure that was to lead to his lasting fame.
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Sailing in the spring of 1528, Pizarro was in Sevilla (Seville) at the same time as Hernán Cortés, conqueror of Mexico, and was able to win Charles over to his scheme. He was decorated, granted a coat of arms, and, in July 1529, made governor and captain general of the province of New Castile for a distance 600 miles (965 km) south of Panama along the newly discovered coast.
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Pizarro progressed toward Cuzco, the royal capital, which was occupied without a struggle in November 1533. The Spaniards declared Manco Capac, Huascar’s brother, as Inca.
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Accused of ordering the execution of his brother Huascar, a rival for the title of Inca, and of plotting to overthrow the Spaniards, Atahuallpa was put to death by strangulation on August 29, 1533.
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For the remainder of his life, Pizarro was engaged in consolidating the Spanish hold on Peru and in defending his and his brothers’ share of the spoils. A certain enmity and rivalry developed between him and Almagro as a result of Pizarro’s overriding powers from the king of Spain.
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Almagro’s former adherents had grouped around Almagro’s son in Lima, where they were confined and watched. Suspecting that they were to be eliminated, they decided to move first, attacking Pizarro’s palace on June 26, 1541. Pizarro died that day a protracted death, drawing a cross of his own blood on the ground, kissing it, and crying “Jesus” as he fell.
