Battle of Maraycalla

Battle of Maraycalla

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Battle of Maraycalla


caption=
partof=the Spanish conquest of Peru
date=1534
place=Maraycalla, present-day Peru
result=Decisive Spanish victory
combatant1=Spanish Empire
combatant2=Inca Empire
commander1=Pizarro brothers
commander2=Quizquiz
strength1=Unknown
strength2=Unknown
casualties1=Unknown
casualties2=Unknown

The battle of Marayacalla was fought in 1534 between Spanish conquistadors and renegade forces of the Inca Empire, whose capital Cuzco had been taken by the Spaniards in November 1533. The Inca army was commanded by famous general Quizquiz.
After losing the battle and fleeing into the mountains, the Inca general was infamously slain by his mutinous forces, leaving no major commander to face the spanish occupants until the rising of Manco Inca Yupanqui in the vast siege of Cuzco, the last major battle of the Incas.


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