. Robert Ramble's [pseud.] stories selected from the history of England, from the conquest to the revolution . arked out as their property. In the midst of this security, Manco Capac,whom the Peruvians acknowledged as Inca, erect-ed the royal standard; and all the warriors inPeru were soon in arms. The Spaniards sufferedgreat losses in the battles that ensued; but, Al-magro coming to the assistance of Pizarro, Manco 112 THE CONQUEST OF PERU. Capac was defeated, and the Peruvian army dis-persed. Then Almagro attacked Pizarro in hispalace; and the illiterate, but crafty, conquerorof Peru was ass
. Robert Ramble's [pseud.] stories selected from the history of England, from the conquest to the revolution . arked out as their property. In the midst of this security, Manco Capac,whom the Peruvians acknowledged as Inca, erect-ed the royal standard; and all the warriors inPeru were soon in arms. The Spaniards sufferedgreat losses in the battles that ensued; but, Al-magro coming to the assistance of Pizarro, Manco 112 THE CONQUEST OF PERU. Capac was defeated, and the Peruvian army dis-persed. Then Almagro attacked Pizarro in hispalace; and the illiterate, but crafty, conquerorof Peru was assassinated, in spite of all the de-fence he and his followers could make. His pala-ces were plundered by the Almagrians, who sometime after, were vanquished by one Vaca de Cas-tro ; and their leader atoned for the murder ofAtahualpa, by the loss of his head, at Cuzco. Thus perished Pizarro and Almagro, the con-querors of Peru. Their lives were replete withcrime, and their memories are execrated by allgood men. The misers love of gold is neverquenched. What crimes will not men commitfor gold! , A > H 8 $. Lima, the capital of Peru. 11. BOURBON, THE TRAITOR. CHARLES the First, of Spain, was, as I havetold you, both king of Spain and emperor of Ger-many, under the title of Charles the Fifth. Fran-cis the First was king of France at the same time. o Now Francis had a relation, called the Duke ofBourbon, a man of high spirit and great rank;but neither the king of France, nor his mother,Louisa of Savoy, treated him according to hisdeserts; but, on the contrary, the latter perse-cuted him very much. So, when Francis wasgoing to make war upon Charles the Fifth inItaly, he was prevented going there in person,because he was told that the Duke of Bourbonwould excite the French people to revolt fromtheir allegiance to their king, and fight for Bour-bon. When Francis, therefore, learned this, hewas obliged to leave his army, and return toParis: and Bourbon fled to Germany, where hewas kin
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