On 16 November 1532, at Cajamarca in the Andes of northern Peru, fewer than two hundred Spaniards under Francisco Pizarro ambushed the Inca ruler Atahualpa in the town square, killed his attendants and took him prisoner. On this date Gustavus Adolphus also died at Lützen in 1632, and Fort Washington fell in 1776.
Battle of Cajamarca 1532: How Pizarro Captured Atahualpa
16 November 1532 · 493 years ago
Spain won at Cajamarca on 16 November 1532, when 168 conquistadors under Francisco Pizarro ambushed the Inca emperor Atahualpa in the middle of his own realm and took him alive. The capture of a living god-king paralyzed the Inca Empire and set the Spanish conquest of Peru in motion.
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16 November 1632 · 393 years ago
A Swedish army under Gustavus Adolphus, with Saxon and Hessian support, attacked Albrecht von Wallenstein's Imperial forces at Lützen in a major battle of the Thirty Years' War. The Swedes narrowly prevailed and Wallenstein withdrew, but the king was killed in the fighting.
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16 November 1776 · 249 years ago
Fort Washington was a five sided earthwork on the high ground above the Hudson, paired with Fort Lee on the New Jersey Palisades opposite. Between them the Americans sank hulks loaded with stones in the river to stop British warships sailing upriver.
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