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Location Chile
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1541, 11 September
The Picunches of the Aconcagua, Cachapoal and the Mapocho valley, lead by the warchief -Toqui- Michimalonco gathered in important numbers to destroy the recently founded "city" of Santiago de la Nueva Extremadura:
"City" because the spanish of the Valley of the Mapocho where only 130.
Pedro de Valdivia, knowning the gathering of the native forces tried to do a lightning surprise attack, and with some 90-100 men rided to the valley of Cachopoal, leaving barely defended the small village that held the title of capitol of the new province of the Empire of Spain. However, the Picunche had spies within the yanaconas -natives serving the spanish, as servants or auxiliary soldiers-, and knowing most of the troopers had left, decided to attack.
According to spanish chronists, some 50 spanish and 300-350 native auxiliary troopers had to face 8,000 picunche warriors.
The spanish resisted as long and as good they could, but they where in inferior numbers, and while the "city" was burn to the ground, they retreated to the last defensive possitions: they had fought for 12 hours, not only spanish conquistadores, but as well along Inés de Suarez, the (only) spanish woman -and as she will demostrate, a conquistadora in her own right-.
Knowing the battle was all but lost, Inés remembered that they had as hostages eight chieftains of the natives... and to demoralize the enemy and rally the morale of the last spanish, she cut the head of the chieftains and throw them over the palisade to the Pincunche:
the spanish, surprised, saw the morale of the Picunche wavered, as they decided to retreat.
Santiago had been destroyed, but the conquista was only beginning.
To understand the possition of the Picunche, this is actually quite early in the Conquest of Chile, and they still didn't knew or underdstood the enemy they where facing, and while they attacked for some 12 hours and advanced, they where able to inflict only light casualties on the spanish -spanish cronists write that they had only four death, but almost every spanish was wounded-. The Yanaconas suffered much heavier casualties.
Quick drawing done with markers for a little history proyect, "This month in history". One of the pics for September.
Based on a traditional painting of the events. I doubt she actually had an armor -or one suited for a woman!-
The Picunches of the Aconcagua, Cachapoal and the Mapocho valley, lead by the warchief -Toqui- Michimalonco gathered in important numbers to destroy the recently founded "city" of Santiago de la Nueva Extremadura:
"City" because the spanish of the Valley of the Mapocho where only 130.
Pedro de Valdivia, knowning the gathering of the native forces tried to do a lightning surprise attack, and with some 90-100 men rided to the valley of Cachopoal, leaving barely defended the small village that held the title of capitol of the new province of the Empire of Spain. However, the Picunche had spies within the yanaconas -natives serving the spanish, as servants or auxiliary soldiers-, and knowing most of the troopers had left, decided to attack.
According to spanish chronists, some 50 spanish and 300-350 native auxiliary troopers had to face 8,000 picunche warriors.
The spanish resisted as long and as good they could, but they where in inferior numbers, and while the "city" was burn to the ground, they retreated to the last defensive possitions: they had fought for 12 hours, not only spanish conquistadores, but as well along Inés de Suarez, the (only) spanish woman -and as she will demostrate, a conquistadora in her own right-.
Knowing the battle was all but lost, Inés remembered that they had as hostages eight chieftains of the natives... and to demoralize the enemy and rally the morale of the last spanish, she cut the head of the chieftains and throw them over the palisade to the Pincunche:
the spanish, surprised, saw the morale of the Picunche wavered, as they decided to retreat.
Santiago had been destroyed, but the conquista was only beginning.
To understand the possition of the Picunche, this is actually quite early in the Conquest of Chile, and they still didn't knew or underdstood the enemy they where facing, and while they attacked for some 12 hours and advanced, they where able to inflict only light casualties on the spanish -spanish cronists write that they had only four death, but almost every spanish was wounded-. The Yanaconas suffered much heavier casualties.
Quick drawing done with markers for a little history proyect, "This month in history". One of the pics for September.
Based on a traditional painting of the events. I doubt she actually had an armor -or one suited for a woman!-
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So there was an actual female conquistador? Now that is an interesting surprise.