Pedro de Alvarado

Porque ¿por qué preguntas por mi nombre, que todo el mundo lo admira? O, ¿por qué preguntas por mi nombre, que es muy...? ¿Que, que se llama? Me llamo Admirable.

Más o menos como que yo le preguntara de qué color era el caballo blanco de don Pedro Alvarado.

[suspirando] Qué cosa más linda el nombre, yo quiero conocer su nombre.

Y de plano, el, el hecho de que lo conozcamos nos va a llevar a conocer sus manifestaciones gloriosas.

And at the same time, they'll tell me a day later, "You know, my family, uh, the Rojas are my...

You know, I'm, I'm an Alvarado.

I, I, I come right from Pedro Alvarado, the red-haired conquistador, and I, my family was pretty good.

We always married people that were Spanish, not Mexican." And, you know, there were 20% of the Mexican American community, many from northern Mexico, you, you wouldn't know the difference between a, an Irish guy with black hair and a person from Mexico with black hair.

They were, they were pure white, and that was...

Kiz Kiz was overcome and killed, his army dispersed, and Manco Capac, having materially assisted Almagro, returned with him to Cuzco to receive the praises of Pizarro.

End of chapter 15 chapter sixteen of francisco pizarro and the conquest of peru chapter sixteen quarrels of the conquerors strange as it may appear manco capac had taken great pleasure in assisting at the defeat of kizkiz the valiant peruvian because most of his soldiers were men of quito to which city and province belonged a faction from which he had much to fear indeed the men of quito were invariably plotting treason in his camp and intriguing against him when in the progress of events manco capac could endure no longer the humiliations imposed upon him and endeavour to escape to the mountains warriors of quito in the service of pizarro betrayed him and brought about his capture that episode of the conquest will be narrated in due course meanwhile let us turn to glance for a moment at that portion of olden peru lying on and north of the equator known as quito as we have seen already it was the birthplace of atahualpa and during the latter years of juana capac his chosen place of residence the unparalleled achievements of pizarro in peru had drawn to that country the attention of all the spanish adventurers in america as well as those at home desirous of emulating their careers among others was that valiant but unscrupulous officer who served with cortes in mexico pedro de alvarado he was then governor of guatemala which country he had conquered and was enjoying wealth and honors that should have satisfied the most towering of ambitions but casting his eye towards peru and noting that quito had not been invaded he resolved to conquer it so he diverted from its original destination a fleet that had been intended for the spice islands and with five hundred men well equipped landed on the southern coast In short, he marched upon Quito, which he finally reached after terrible sufferings while crossing the Cordilleras, but was not permitted to taste the fruits of conquest, since he had aroused enemies far more formidable than the natives of the country.

For Pizarro, on receiving the alarming rumors of this invasion of his territory, immediately dispatched Almagro to intercept Alvarado, and, if possible, induce him to quit the territory.

though he pressed forward with the utmost rapidity almagro found on reaching san miguel that the commandant of that place sebastian benalcazar had anticipated his design and himself hurried off to make the capture of quito both commanders in fact reached and grasped the coveted prize before alvarado arrived and with united forces calmly awaited his coming there was then the prospect of a bloody encounter for the redoubtable hero of guatemala and mexico was the equal in valor and military training of any captain of his time but though he had a force vastly superior in numbers to his opponents it had been weakened by starvation to such an extent that he hesitated to give battle in brief negotiations were entered into which resulted in the fiery alvarado agreeing to withdraw from the country for a consideration of one hundred thousand pesos de oro or about a million dollars which he claimed was less than his armament had cost him not to mention the privations he had endured Thus the matter was settled amicably, and the two principals retired upon Pachacamac, where they met Pizarro, who cordially ratified the compact, and entertained Alvarado with banquets and tournaments.