The Conquest of Peru - Vol. II
Edition: Illustrated Cabinet Edition
Publisher: Merrill and Baker
Published: 1874
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 578
Copyright date: 1874
Table of contents: title: [Annual figures do not exist in the original ToC but in the appropriate section headings.]; title: CONTENTS OF VOL. II; title: CONQUEST OF PERU - Continued
label: Book III; title: New Inca crowned - Municipal regulations - Terrible march of Alvarado - Interview with Pizarro - Foundation of Lima - Hernando Pizarro reaches Spain - Sensation at court - Feuds of Almagro and the Pizarros (1534-1535)
label: Chap IX; title: Escape of the Inca - Return of Hernando Pizarro - Rising of the Peruvians - Siege and burning off Cuzco - Distresses of the Spaniards - Storming of the fortress - Pizarro's dismay - The Inca raises the siege (1535-1536)
label: Chap X; title: CIVIL WARS OF THE CONQUERERS
label: Book IV; title: Almagro's march to Chili - Suffering of the troops - He returns and seizes Cuzco - Action of Abancay - Gaspar de Espinosa - Almagro leaves Cuzco - Negotiations with Pizarro (1535-1537)
label: Chap I; title: First civil war - Almagro retreats to Cuzco - Battle of Las Salinas - Cruelty of the conquerors - Trial and execution of Almagro - His character (1537-1538)
label: Chap II; title: Pizarro revisits Cuzco - Hernando returns to Castile - His long Imprisonment - Commissioner sent to Peru - Hostilities with the Inca -Pizarro's active administration - Gonzalo Pizarro (1539-1540)
label: Chap III; title: Gonzalo Pizarro's expedition - Passage across the mountains - Discovers the Napo - Incredible sufferings - Orellana sails down the Amazon - Despair of the Spaniards - The survivors return to Quito (1540-1542)
label: Chap IV; title: The Almagro faction - Their desperate condition - Conspiracy against Francisco Pizarro - Assassination of Pizarro - Acts of the conspirators - Pizarro's character (1541)
label: Chap V; title: Movements of the conspirators - Advance of Vaca de Castro - Proceedings of Almagro - Progress of the Governor - The forces approach each other - Bloody plains of Chupas - Conduct of Vaca de Castro (1541-1543)
label: Chap VI; title: Abuses by the conquerors - Code for the colonies - Great excitement in Peru - Blasco Nunez the Viceroy - His severe policy - Opposed by Gonzalo Pizarro (1543-1544)
label: Chap VII; title: The Viceroy arrives at Lima - Gonzalo Pizarro marches from Cuzco - Death of the Inca Manco - Rash conduct of the Viceroy - Seized and deposed by the audience - Gonzalo proclaimed Governor of Peru (1544)
label: Chap VIII; title: Measures of Gonzalo Pizarro - Escape of Vaca de Castro - Reappearance of the Viceroy - His disastrous retreat - Defeat and death of the Viceroy - Gonzalo Pizarro Lord of Peru (1544-1546)
label: Chap IX; title: SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTRY
label: Book V; title: Great sensation in Spain - Pedro de la Gasca - His early life - His mission to Peru - His politic conduct - His offers to Pizarro - Gains the fleet (1545-1547)
label: Chap I; title: Gasca assembles his forces - Defection of Pizarro's followers - He musters his levies - Agitation in Lima - He abandons the city - Gasca sails from Panama - Bloody battle off Huarina (1547)
label: Chap II; title: Dismay in Gasca's camp - His winter quarters - He resumes his march - Crosses the Apurimac - Pizarro's conduct in Cuzco - He encamps near the city - Rout of Xaquixaguana (1547-1548)
label: Chap III; title: Execution of Carbajal - Gonzalo Pizarro beheaded - Spoils of victory - Wise reforms by Gasca - He returns to Spain - His death and character (1548-1550)
label: Chap IV; title: Original documents: Description of the Inca's progresses - Account of the great Peruvian road - Policy of the Incas in their conquests - Will of Mancio Sierra Lejesema - Interview between Pedrarias and Almagro - Contract of Pizarro with Almagro and Luque - Capitulation of Pizarro with the Queen - Accounts of Atahuallpa's seizure - Personal habits of Atahuallpa - Accounts of Atahuallpa's execution - Contract between Pizarro and Almagro - Letter of Almagro the Younger to the audience - Letter of the municipality of Arequipa to Charles the Fifth - Sentence passed on Gonzalo Pizarro
label: Appendix; title: List of illustrations: Pedro de la Gasca - Facsimile of two signatures of Pizarro - Tropical river scene - Bridge entering Quito - Cathedral and market, La Paz - Seville, Spain; title: Index [Does not exist in the original ToC]