Regional1539

Battle of Cerquin

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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Honduras

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Cerquin (1539), part of the Spanish Conquest of Honduras. Spain defeated Lenca Indians. Battle followed by a massacre.

Belligerents2

Spain
Lenca Indians

ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)

Conflict graph

PART OFSpanish conquest of Honduras

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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