Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1933, Page 67

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e e e e e e e e e e e i < e e e i e et | et e e e e e e LT T I toLLY EOGQ_AP}D’T PICTURES IN THE- MAP DISCOVERED ®Y YOUNG JoLLy Bu: CONQUEST OF PEQU wAS A STORY OF GOLD, TREACHERY AND 8LOOD. ArTER P1ZARRO HAD . TRUCKED ATAHUALPA INTO PAYING AN ENORMOUS RANSOM INTHE E XPECTATION OF GAINING HiS FREEDOM, THE SPANISH LEADER KEPT THE PERQUVIAN INCA A PRISONER AND ISSUED ORDERS YO THE NATIVES IN THEIR KING'S NAME ——— ¢ WHEN THE UNHAPPY INCA WAS NO LONGER USEFUL TO HIM, PIZARRO HAD MM PUT TO DEATH IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE AT CAXAMARCA (1533). . .. .. . i e AT [ 1zacc0 EsTaBLISHED ™HE HE RULED AS ROYAL GOVERNOR CRUSHED WITH AN IRON HAND, — A% [N JunE 26,1541 4 PARTY OF ALMAGROS FRIENDS BURST INTO THE GOVERNOR'S PALACE WHILE P1ZARRO AND SOME OF HIS HENCHMEN WERE AT DINNER . \1 e Five Million Consinued from Ninth Page for an appropristion of $3,000,000 io put Atlantic Coast defenses in condition to repel an attack by France should she strike while Congress was in recess, but Whig opposition blocked the bill. Failure of the fortifications bill, however, oni pd; to. stiffens: Jackson’s determination to maintain the Nation's dignity and rights. But, although French opinion clung to the notion that Jackson was neot sup- ported at home in his stand, the Chamber of Deputies appropriated money for the payments due contingent upon an “apology or explana- PROVINCIAL CAPITAL AT LIMA WHERE TO REVOLT, BUT THE UPRISING WAS & rerors oF PizarROs success AND THE FABULOU'S TREASURE OBTA INED ATTRACTED CROWDS OF SPANISH ADVENTURERS TO PeRu. TN 1533 P12AQR0 MARCHED INTO THE INTERIOR WITH A FORMIDABLE ARMY. —— © AND SELFISH AMBITIONS LEDTO A NEW QUARREL WITH ALMAGRO, AND SOON THE VANQUISHED PERUVIANS WERE SURPRISED TO SEE THEIR CONQUER - ORS FIGHTING AMONG THEMSELVES. [B1zarc0 AlD 1is GUESTS DREW THEIR SWORDS AND DEFENDED THEMSELVE'S DESPERATELY,BUT AT LAST FELL BENEATH THE BLOWS AND THRUSTS OF THE CONSPIRATORS" @ 1990, 2 Cannars Masrsp - ~ * tion” from the President. This, of course, was mxmm:mdmmx?uwnmnta standstill MARTHA JOYCE- AGSD 12 . RouTe 1, KEanERSVILLE, N. C. [Ble FoRcED s wAY ACROSS THE - COUNTRY,PLUNDERING MANY TOWNS, ANDAT LAST BNTEQEP (VICO, THE PEQUVIAN CAPITAL. PIZARRO PLACED | APUPPET INCA MANCO, ON THE THRONE AND THEN RETIRED JO THE SEACOAST. VICTORIOUS. THE UNLUCKY ALMAG WAS CAPTURED, GIVEN A MOCK TRIAL AND BEHEADED (1534) . Wil A FREE HAND, P1ZARQO RULED DESPOTICALLY. (Ao Jad 1 TH H1S OWN BLOOD, PIZARRQ DREW A CROSS ON THE FLOOR, KISSED ITAND EXPIRED. HE HAD LIVED BY VIOLENCE-. HE DIED THE SAME WAY, ' ——— e e LR DRSO RN EeanwHiLE PiZARRSS PARTIER A LED AN EXPEDITIONTO CHILE AND CONQUERED THAT COUNTRY. A THIRD ARMY UNDER THE COMMAND OF BENALCAZAR SUBJUGATED ECUADOR . [iza0r0 was wot To ENJOY HIS ILL GOTTEN WEALTH AND POWER VERY LONG. THE SON OF ALMAGRO SWORE TOAVENGE HIS FATHER AND IN 1540 SETON FOOT A CONSPIRALY TO DESTROY THETYRANT. .+ . s + .« flaewnua BETWEEN THE RIVAL FACTIONS CONTINUED FOR A YRAR. FINALLY THE KING SENTOVER A VICBROY WHO ESTABLISHED A STABLE GOVERNMENT IN PERU. SOON GREBAT GALLFONS WERE CROSSING THE ATLANTIC,BEARING | THE TREASURES OF PERU T0 SRAIN. 33 ~—vNEXT : HERNANDO DB SOT0 = = — = == = — — = = —] — = = = =1 = = —] s = — = = b - — e — = —4 — = == = — —3 = = =1 = = — = —d —_— —4 — = — = = = = == — = = — = = = = — — == e = = = = = = — — — = note budged not an inch on the position Jack- son had maintained throughout the eon- troversy. In his next “Old Hickory” asserted that “the spi of the American people, the dignity of the Legislature and the firm resolve of their executive Government forbid” any apology or expianation and he called upon Congress to “susigin executive exertion in such measures as the case requires,” including re- prisals consisting of the exclusion of French products and vessels from American ports. News came of French naval preparations, the purport of which could only be guessed on this side of the Atlantic. “But, come what may,” declared, “the which — France demands can nevef be accorded and no armaments. however powerful and imposing, at a distance or on our coast, will, I trust, deter us from discharging the high, duties we owe to our constituents, our national character and-to the world.” The uproar in Congress endured through 1835, with Adams ably defending Jackson from . unore bemind the Executive and in Janu- ary, 1336, Jackson sent to Congress a special message embodying his embargo plan. 2 It was while this recommendation was being considered at the Capitol that an unheralded event began paving the way for an amicable Within two weeks Bankhead reported suc- cess of the mediation entailing a complete reversal of Paris’ stand. “The French governe ment,” he wrote, “has stated that the frank and honorable manner in which the Presidend has in his recent message expressed imself in regard to the points of difference between the governments of France and the United States

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