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Almagro, Diego de 1475-1538
Spanish conquistador
Born in Almagro, Castile, he was on the first exploratory expedition from Peru against the Incas led by Francisco Pizarro (1524-28). In the second expedition (from 1532), he joined Pizarro in 1533 at Cajamarca, where the Inca chieftain Atahualpa was executed, and occupied the Inca capital of Cuzco. In 1535-36 he led the conquest of Chile, but came back to Cuzco in 1537, and after a dispute with Pizarro occupied it by force, thus beginning a civil war among the Spaniards. Early in 1538 he was defeated byan army led by Pizarro's brother, Hernando, and was captured and executed.
Bibliography: Manuel Ballesteros Gaibrois, Diego de Almagro (1977)
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