How To Use Pizarro In A Sentence
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It _did_ take a dozen men in full armor to kill the armorless Pizarro, and even then it took trickery and treachery to do it.
Despoilers of the Golden Empire
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Pizarro defeated the might of the Inca Empire with only a few hundred men.
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According to the historian Prescott, Pizarro, the caudillo, spent a million pesos in gold to equip an army to fight La Gasca, the Pacifier, whose fleet was battered by a storm but arrived safely on the equatorial coasts.
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Francisco de Orellana was born around 1511 to a prominent family in the hardscrabble region of Spain known as Extremadura, home to a flotilla of other explorers, including Hernán Cortés, Vasco Núñez de Balboa and Francisco Pizarro, the conqueror of the Incas.
Escaping The Rainforest
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These performances of the three late sonatas too have a fine, confident sweep and display Pizarro's easy, fluent virtuosity.
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As he pulled level with Pizarro, Spencer's mount hung right and appeared to squeeze him against the rails.
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Between themselves they arrange that the wedding shall take place when next Pizarro makes his monthly visit to Seville to give an account of his stewardship, and the jailer admonishes the youthful pair to put money in their purses in a song of little distinction, but containing some delineative music in the orchestra suggesting the rolling and jingling of coins.
A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
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Werder, though, remain hopeful Pizarro may sign a long-term agreement at the Weserstadion.
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Hargreaves plays the ball into Pizarro on the edge of the Celtic box.
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Peruvian-Chilean relations have been generally good of late and Peruvian officials including Defense Minister Luis Alberto Otarola avoided the word "espionage" when questioned by reporters about the arrests of Serain and Pizarro.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter
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Senderos heads away just as Pizarro is about to nut a cross in from about eight yards out.
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Pizarro defeated the might of the Inca Empire with only a few hundred men.
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Sheridan's Pizarro opens in 1534, with the Spaniard Francisco Pizarro waging a war of conquest against the Inca Empire of Peru.
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Pizarro manages to combine these romantic emotional extremes with unusual clarity, bringing out lines that can often be marred and mushed by foggy sustain pedalling.
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We have Pizarro's answer, which confuses together the positions of moral realism, moral sense theory, and moral infallibilism one can be a moral realist but not a moral sense theorist, or a moral sense theorist but not a moral realist, or both, or neither; and one can be either without believing that there is a 'royal road to moral truth'; or Anderson's bizarre argument about the probability of God's existence; or Kosslyn's odd talk about God and Supersets; or any number of others.
Not-so-dangerous Ideas and Very Dangerous Hyperboles
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Pizarro too is unconcerned, and is eager to prove his worth to the Chelsea cause.
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The first viceroy, Mendoza, and many of the subsequent officials of this rank governed Mexico for a period, and were transferred thence to the viceregency of Peru, which latter country had been brought into Spain's colonial possessions by the conquest under Pizarro, in 1532.
Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development
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His valour, prudence, and humanity, more especially the latter quality, which shines forth strangely in contrast with the cruelty of Pizarro, ensures for him a distinction all his own among the "conquistadores" of the sixteenth century.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World
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Pizarro found chewers in Peru, but it was in the country discovered by Cabral that the great sternutatory was originally found.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
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Bayern Munich striker Claudio Pizarro wants to follow teammate Hasan Salihamidzic to Juventus.
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The proud descendants of Pizarro marched with heads high, as in the times when their ancestors founded the city of kings; their traditional scorn rested alike on the Indians whom they had conquered, and the mestizoes, born of their relations with the natives of the New World.
The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love
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Juan Pizarro and the cavalry broke out of Cusco, circled around and attacked the Inca in Sacsayhuaman (during the attack Juan was killed by a slingstone).
Exploring the Inca Heartland: Cusco and Nearby Sites
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Pizarro went to Spain and concluded a capitulation with the crown by which he obtained the right of discovery and conquest of Peru for a distance of 200 leagues south of the Gulf of Guayaquil and the office of adelantado, governor and captain-general.
4. Peru and the West Coast, 1522-1581
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This ardent nature awoke fire beneath the ashes; the proud bearing of the Indian suited the chivalric hidalgo; and then, weary of the Spanish nobles, in whom he no longer had confidence, disgusted with the selfish mestizoes, who wished to aggrandize themselves at his expense, he took a pleasure in turning to that primitive race, who have disputed so valiantly the American soil with the soldiers of Pizarro.
The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love
