Pizarro, Juan

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Pizarro, Juan (hwän pēthär`rō), d. 1536, Spanish conquistador, brother of Francisco Pizarro. He aided Francisco in the conquest of Peru. With his other brothers, Gonzalo and Hernando, he fought against the Inca Manco Capac Manco Capac, d. 1544, last of the Inca rulers, son of Huayna Capac . After the deaths of Huáscar and Atahualpa , Manco Capac was crowned (1534) emperor by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro but was tolerated only as a puppet.
..... Click the link for more information. during the siege of Cuzco in 1536. He was killed leading an attack on the Native American fortress Sacsahuamán.

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