The book History of the Conquest of Peru By the Spaniards was written by author Joaqun Telesforo De Trueba Y Coso Here you can read free online of History of the Conquest of Peru By the Spaniards book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is History of the Conquest of Peru By the Spaniards a good or bad book?
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Pizarro took a prominent part in almost all the important enterprises in America. He was the companion of Nunez de Balboa and of Hernan Cortes; and. After having served witli distinction under the most celebrated leaders. He became himself a leader equally renowned. Spain owed to him the discovery and conquest of Peru. Perhaps in no page of the history of America — not even in the books which narrate the romantic and almost incredible achievements of the conquerors of Mexico — shall we find her...oism more magnanimous and more ex- traordinary than the determination formed by Pizarro and thirteen * Zarate. — Gomara. — Vega, &c. CONQUEST OF PERU. 127 others, who, though worn out with fatigue, diseases and disap- pointments, resolutely preferred to remain in a desert island, than to abandon the enterprise which they had undertaken. But, however great may have been the military virtues of Fran- cis Pizarro — however extensive and varied the series of his ser- vices — however severe the trials he sustained in a long life devoted to danger, toil, and hardship in the cause of discovery, — such multifarious merits lose a great portion of their claims to public admiration from the acts of injustice, rapine, and cruelty, by which his deeds were deeply coloured.
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