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The psychological impact of the attack caused the Inca to flee and crowd against the courtyard walls; the walls eventually gave way under the pressure of the bodies.
Unidentified speaker · Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires? · 1 Oct 2026
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“The psychological impact was that they tried to flee,”
“they were piling up against the walls and their desperation to scramble over them to the point where the walls finally gave way under the press of all those bodies.”Play from 29:48Report a misattribution
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