Early Modern era · 1532

Battle of Cajamarca

The Battle of Cajamarca, also spelled Cajamalca (though many contemporary scholars prefer to call it the Cajamarca massacre), was the ambush and seizure of the Incan ruler Atahualpa by a small Spanish force led by Francisco Pizarro, on November 16, 1532.

Battle of Cajamarca
Battle of Cajamarca · Juan Lepiani, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
16 Nov 1532
Where
Cajamarca
Era
Early Modern

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