27 Facts About Francisco Pizarro

1.

Francisco Pizarro went to the Gulf of Uraba, and accompanied Vasco Nunez de Balboa in his crossing of the Isthmus of Panama, where they became the first Europeans to see the Pacific Ocean from the Americas.

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In 1529, Francisco Pizarro obtained permission from the Spanish crown to lead a campaign to conquer Peru and went on his third, and successful, expedition.

3.

When local people who lived along the coast resisted this invasion, Francisco Pizarro moved inland and founded the first Spanish settlement in Peru, San Miguel de Piura.

4.

Francisco Pizarro eventually fell victim to political power struggles and was assassinated in 1541.

5.

Francisco Pizarro was born in Trujillo, Caceres, Spain in modern-day Extremadura, Spain.

6.

Francisco Pizarro was the illegitimate son of infantry colonel Gonzalo Pizarro and Francisca Gonzalez, a woman of poor means.

7.

Francisco Pizarro's father was a colonel of infantry who served in Navarre and in the Italian campaigns under Cordoba.

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8.

Francisco Pizarro's mother married late in life and had a son Francisco Martin de Alcantara, who was at the conquest of Peru with his half-brother from its inception.

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Francisco Pizarro became a participant in Ojeda's failed colony, commanding the remnants until he abandoned it with the survivors.

10.

Francisco Pizarro sailed to Cartagena and joined the fleet of Martin Fernandez de Enciso in 1513.

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Francisco Pizarro sailed to Cartagena and joined the fleet of Martin Fernandez de Enciso and, in 1513, accompanied Balboa in his crossing of the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific.

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In 1524, while still in Panama, Francisco Pizarro formed a partnership with a priest, Hernando de Luque and a soldier, Diego de Almagro, to explore and conquer the South.

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Francisco Pizarro then set sail north for the San Juan River, arriving to find Pizarro and his men exhausted from the difficulties they had faced exploring the new territory.

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The Spanish saw for the first time the Peruvian llama, which Francisco Pizarro called "little camels".

15.

Francisco Pizarro continued receiving the same accounts of a powerful monarch who ruled over the land they were exploring.

16.

Francisco Pizarro was given two Peruvian boys to learn Spanish, one of whom was later baptized as Felipillo and served as an important interpreter, the equivalent of Cortes' La Malinche of Mexico, and another called Martinillo.

17.

Francisco Pizarro sailed from Panama for Spain in the spring of 1528, accompanied by Pedro de Candia, some natives and llamas, plus samples of fabric, gold and silver.

18.

King Charles I, who was at Toledo, had an interview with Francisco Pizarro and heard of his expeditions in South America.

19.

One of the grant conditions was that within six months, Francisco Pizarro should raise a sufficiently equipped force of 250 men, of whom 100 might be drawn from the colonies.

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Francisco Pizarro was there joined by his brother Hernando and the remaining men in two vessels that would sail back to Panama.

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In 1531, Francisco Pizarro landed on the coasts near Ecuador, the province of Coaque and the region of esmeraldas, where some gold, silver and emeralds were procured and then dispatched to Almagro.

22.

Francisco Pizarro sent Hernando Pizarro and de Soto to meet with Atahualpa in his camp.

23.

Francisco Pizarro executed Atahualpa's 12-man honor guard and took the Inca captive at the so-called Ransom Room.

24.

Francisco Pizarro's remains were briefly interred in the cathedral courtyard; at some later time, his head and body were separated and buried in separate boxes underneath the floor of the cathedral.

25.

In 1892, in preparation for the anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the Americas, a body believed to be that of Francisco Pizarro was exhumed and put on display in a glass coffin.

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26.

Francisco Pizarro is reviled for ordering Atahualpa's death despite the ransom payment.

27.

Since 2004 Francisco Pizarro's statue has been in a park surrounded by the recently restored 17th-century walls in the Rimac District.