4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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Attahualpa deployed a blocking force numbering tens of thousands to prevent the Spaniards from retreating.

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

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“he sends a blocking force,”
“tens of thousands of men,”
“to cut off any retreat,”
26:15Report a misattribution
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0.75importance to the conversation
0.90confidence the claim was read correctly