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SAN CRISTOBAL carrack 1525

Post by aukepalmhof » Fri Apr 27, 2018 8:05 pm

The SAN CRISTOBAL was a new vessel, most probably a caravel and most probably at that time built in Panama, and she was chartered by Pizarro for his expedition in 1525.It is given that she was built for Vasco Nunez se Balboa but when he dies in 1519, she was laid up.
Francisco Pizarro made 3 expeditions which, sailed from Panama, directed him towards the south to finally reach and conquer the Inca Empire.
In 1524, Francisco Pizarro together with Diego de Almagro and Hernando de Luque founded "La Compañía del Levante”.

The first trip of Francisco Pizarro
The first expedition left Panama with two ships, the SANTIAGO and the SAN CRISTÓBAL. The SANTIAGO went to the Perlas Islands to continue along the coast until it reached a point they called Puerto de Hambre because the supplies they had on board were finished there. The lack of food made Francisco Pizarro send back the SANTIAGO to the Perlas Islands in search of supplies.
The trip resumed at the beginning of the year 1525. They continued towards the south until they arrived at the Fort of the Cacique de las Piedras where the expedition was attacked by the natives, finally returning to Chochama .
During the return of Pizarro to Chochama, the SAN CRISTÓBAL, with Diego de Almagro, had travelled from Panama to reach the Fort of Cacique de las Piedras where they were also attacked by the Indians. In that confrontation Diego de Almagro lost an eye after being hit by an arrow. In retaliation he burned Fort of Cacique de las Piedras.
After returning to Chochama and meeting Francisco Pizarro, the first expedition ended.
The second trip of Francisco Pizarro
In October of 1526, Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro left to the south with the SANTIAGO and the SAN CRISTÓBAL. At the end of July of 1527 the expedition reached the bay of San Mateo to continue to the island of Gallo. At this moment one of the key moments of the expedition took place after Francisco Pizarro stayed on the island with part of the crew and sent the two ships to Panama with Diego de Almagro and Juan Carballo.
At the end of September 1527, the two ships, led by Juan Tafur, returned to the island of Gallo with the mission entrusted by Pedro de los Ríos, governor of Panama, to pick up Francisco Pizarro and the rest of the crew that had remained on the island and take them back to Panama. At that moment, Francisco Pizarro drew his sword, drew a line in the sand and said to his men: "On this side you are going to Panama to be poor, for this to Peru to be rich, choose what is good Castilian what I'd rather be him" Thirteen were the men who crossed the line drawn by Francisco Pizarro. Juan Tafur moved Francisco Pizarro and the thirteen to Gorgona Island, while the rest continued on to Panama.
The thirteen who stayed with Francisco Pizarro, called "The thirteen knights of the island of Gallo" or "The thirteen of fame”, were (arranged alphabetically by last name):
Pedro Alcón, Alonso Briceño, Pedro de Candia, Antonio Carrión, Francisco de Cuéllar, García Jerén, Alonso Molina, Martín Paz, Cristóbal de Peralta, Nicolás de Rivera (the old man), Bartolomé Ruiz, Domingo de Soraluce and 'Juan de la Torre and Díaz Chacón’.
After spending six months on Gorgona Island, in March 1528 the pilot Ruiz returned to pick up Francisco Pizarro, who convinced him to continue the journey south until they reached Tumbes , which he called Nueva Valencia , the first important city that they had met.
Before returning to Panama with the conviction of having found the Inca Empire, the Tahuantinsuyo, continued traveling south until reaching the mouth of the Santa Clara River.

The third trip of Francisco Pizarro.
On this expedition the SAN CRISTÓBAL is not more mentioned.
The third expedition departed in January 1531 from Panama. They advanced through the Coaque region, an area in which the cacique Tumbalá invited them to Puná Island, where Francisco Pizarro confirmed that the Inca Empire was in a civil war.
In January of 1532 they arrived at Tumbes, and from there they continued to Poechos. Later, in the Chira Valley, Francisco Pizarro founded on 15 May / July 1532 San Miguel , the first Spanish city in the Inca territory, where a garrison of 60 men remained.
In September of 1532, 110 men of infantry and 67 of cavalry under the command of Francisco Pizarro continued his way towards the south. After advancing along the coast, they arrived in Cajamarca on November 15, 1532. Francisco Pizarro sent for dinner that night to Atahualpa, who accepted the invitation but not for that day but for the next day, November 16, 1532, date in which Pizarro takes him prisoner and confined him in a room in Cajamarca .
Later, after appointing Inca Túpac Hualpa, brother of Atahualpa, he continued to El Cusco, the capital of the Inca Empire, which he finally occupied in November 1533.


Source: http://www.historiadelascivilizaciones. ... zarro.html
Peru 1936 2c sg 567, scott 343.
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