Historical Figures

quizquiz

Quizquiz, soldier of the Inca empire born in Cuzco . He served under Huayna Cápac and, after his death, he supported Atahualpa and led his armies in the southern campaign, leading them to victory and occupying the imperial capital. There he unleashed a cruel repression against the cream of the nobility, taking charge of capturing and killing Huáscar's relatives with his own hands. Aware of the capture of Atahualpa in Cajamarca, he decided to remain in Cuzco, while Calcuchimac went to rescue his lord. Some time later he learned that he had also been captured by the Spanish. He then ordered his captains to prevent the Spanish troops from advancing towards Cuzco. However, after numerous confrontations, he was overwhelmed by them and, losing the possibility of defending the capital of the empire, he abandoned it, heading to the mountains of Capi in Paruro to reorganize his forces. Being definitively defeated by a Hispano-Cuzco army under the orders of Manco Inca, he marched towards Jauja and faced Captain Gabriel de Rojas , who under the command of forty Spaniards and three thousand auxiliary Indians, mostly Jaujinos, resisted the Quito forces forcing Quizquiz to retreat to Huánuco Pampa.
In the north, Benalcázar had defeated the resistance of Rumiñahui and had officially founded the city of San Francisco de Quito on August 28, 1534 . Days later, Pedro de Alvarado and Diego de Almagro, who were on their way to Lima, received news that Quizquiz, after having spent some time in Huancabamba preparing a new army, was marching on Quito. The Inca general managed to separate the forces of Almagro and Alvarado to make his attack more effective. However, the experience of Alvarado, a veteran of the wars in Mexico and Guatemala, weighed more heavily, as he went on the offensive, managing to capture General Socta Urco, chief of Quizquiz's vanguard. He and Huayna Palcón marched together towards the jungle to define the strategy that they would have to assume in the future. Quizquiz was in favor of a guerrilla fight until his forces recomposed , with which his companion did not agree. They started an arduous discussion about it until, in a fit of anger, Huayna Palcón took a spear and pierced Quizquiz's chest.