Vicente de Valverde

Spanish friar and bishop

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In Atahuallpa
…rejected demands by the friar Vicente de Valverde, who had accompanied Pizarro, that he accept the Christian faith and the sovereignty of Charles V of Spain, whereupon Pizarro signaled his men. Firing their cannons and guns and charging with their horses (all of which had been unknown to the Incas),…
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