Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca
A small band of Spaniards captures the Inca ruler
Francisco Pizarro's band of fewer than 200 men captured the Inca ruler Atahualpa. After receiving a huge gold ransom the Spaniards executed him in 1533, and the Inca Empire, split by civil war, soon collapsed.
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