Second battle of Cuzco
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| Siege of Cuzco | |||||||
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| Part of the Spanish conquest of Peru | |||||||
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| Combatants | |||||||
| Nueva Castilla, Nueva Toledo | Inca Empire | ||||||
| Commanders | |||||||
| Francisco Pizarro Gonzalo Pizarro Hernando Pizarro Juan Pizarro II †, later reinforced by Diego Almagro |
Sapa Inca Manco Inca Yupanqui | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 300 in Cuzco, 300 in Lima, later reinforced by some 300 Almagristas | At least 100,000 Inca warriors |
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| Casualties | |||||||
| Some hundred, Juan Pizarro killed | High, tens of thousands | ||||||
| Conquest of Peru |
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| Punta Quemada – Puná – Cajamarca – Cuzco – Las Salinas |
After the capture of Cuzco in 1533, the spaniards set up a very harsh occupation of the Inca Empire. Almagro, reinforced from Panama, went south and conquered Chile. Eventually, the Incas wouldn't stand their defeaters. Manco Inca, the new leader, gathered 100,000 incas and sieged Cuzco, but failed to take it. Francisco Pizarro attacked from Lima to save his brothers, who was stuck in the palace of Inti-Huasi in Qoricancha. Juan Pizarro died, hit by a rock during the massive fights, but - ultimately - Almagro returned to his antagonist and saved all New Castile by delivering the necessary force, attacked the Incas and won. He seized Cuzco himself the same year but was defeated in 1538 (Battle of Las Salinas) and was beheaded. His young son revenged by assassinate Pizarro and was himself executed. However, the threat from the Incas was extinguished, and, as soon as Almagro's and Pizarro's personal struggle would end, the future of Spanish rule was sealed in western South America until the 1800's.
