Major conflict1536 – 1537 · 1 year

Siege of Cusco

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Cusco · Sacsayhuaman

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

From May 1536 to early 1537, the Inca emperor Manco Inca Yupanqui led a massive native army in a ten-month siege of Spanish-held Cusco, seizing the fortress of Sacsayhuaman before the smaller Spanish garrison under Hernando Pizarro broke the siege; its failure cemented Spanish control of the Andes.

Belligerents2

Neo-Inca State (Manco Inca)
Spanish Empire

ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)

Conflict graph

PART OFSpanish Conquest of the Inca Empire

Sources

Wikipedia: Siege of Cusco
Hemming, The Conquest of the Incas
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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