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"Francisco Pizarro is possibly one of the best known but least understood figures of world history. In 1530, at the age of fifty-four, he set out on his successful and bloody conquest of Peru, thus changing the future of a continent and its peoples forever. It was a long way from his humble beginnings as an illiterate, illegitimate pig-herder. Within these pages Stuart Stirling tells the story of adversity and tragedy which was the life of Francisco Pizarro.". "By the standards of the time, Pizarro was an elderly man when he conquered Peru. He had served as a foot soldier in Spain's Italian…
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5 editions · 2 languages- Other · English · 2008History Press Limited, The · 9780750936835
- Other · English · 2008History Press Limited, The · 9780750936927
- Other · English · 2005History Press Limited, The · 9780752495330
- Other · English · 2005Sutton Pub. · 243 pages · 9780750936828
- Other · Polish · 2005Amber · 245 pages · 9788324123186
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