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During the encounter, Pizarro's hand was cut by a comrade as Pizarro reached to seize Atahualpa, and this was the conquistadors' only injury at that point.

Unresolved speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026

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“appreciation of or able to draw back any kind of library of how do I respond in this situation the fight-or-flight instinct just completely takes over and and the flight was the winner in this instance as you say the only casualty was Pizarro himself he's reaching for Adewale to take him prisoner and one of his more enthusiastic comrades slashing and manages to cut his hand as he does that that was the only injury any of the conquistadors suffered at this critical moment”
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