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In the News (Wed 22 May 13)

  
  Historic Relic Huascar
The Huascar was launched on October 7, 1865 and her construction was completed by December of the same year.
The Huascar was part of the National Squadron until 1897, when she was decommissioned in Talcahuano because of a smoke explosion in one of the boilers.
The Huascar is open to the general public in the following hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 09.30 to 12.30 in the morning and 13.30 to 19.30.
www.armada.cl /site/unidades_navales/641.htm   (994 words)

  
 Incas and Conquistadors
Huascar, meaning "rope" or "chain", was the eldest surviving son of Inca Huayna Capac.
Huascar's forces were initially successful and even captured Atahualpa, who soon escaped.
But Huascar was an unreliable leader and his military tactics and mistreatment of his generals proved to be his undoing.
dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/road/hc09/incas/incas-huascar.html   (260 words)

  
 HISTORY OF MACHU PICCHU - Huascar's Government- MACHUPICCHU PERU
Huascar did not treat the royal ayllus in the manner to which they were accustomed, and did not attend the public banquets in the plaza, where ties of kinship and reciprocity were reinforced.
After that, Huascar declared that he wanted to bury all the royal mummies and take away from the panacas all their lands, riches, servants and women.
Huascar's loss of reputation enabled the panacas of Hatun Ayllu, to which Atahualpa belonged, to feed the fires of intrigue.
www.enjoy-machu-picchu.org /history-information-machu-picchu-government-huascar-government.php   (810 words)

  
  The Antiquity of Man Inca conquest
Huascar was captured by Atahuallpa in 1533, but his armies continued to resist at Cuzco.
The Spanish arived in the middle of the critical situation and exploited the state of anarchy by favouring Huascar's armies; one such action being the execution of Tomala, who was chief of the Puna and an ally of Atahuallpa.
Huascar's army viewed Pizarro and his Spanish soldiers as allies, but this illusion was soon destroyed by the greed and brutality exhibited by the Spaniards.
www.antiquityofman.com /Inca_conquest.html   (1260 words)

  
 The Spanish Conquest of the Inca Empire (part 2)
In place, Huascar arrested them because of the pressure of his court, the envoys had been imprisened, tortured and brought to death.
With ease was the army of Huascar closed in and went on the run, the Sapa Inca was caught and imprisoned.
Huascar's women were assassinated in front of his eyes, his noblicity and consultants were imprisoned or their throat were cut and their heads pinned on poles and left along the roads leading to Cuzco, a warning for everybody who dared to doubt the power of the new ruling Inca.
www.infoperu.com /en/view.php?p=162&linkx=addnew   (1514 words)

  
 Huascar articles and news from Start Learning Now
Inti Cusi Huallpa Huascar (Quechua: Waskhar), or "Sun of Joy" (1503 – 1532) was Sapa Inca of the Inca empire from 1527 to 1532 AD, succeeding his father Huayna Capac and brother Ninan Cuyochi, both of whom died of smallpox while campaigning near Quito.
When Huayna Capac died, Huascar was in Cusco from where he could organize an army, while Atahualpa was in the distant land now known as Ecuador.
Huascar captured Atahualpa in one of the first battles, and it looked as if the war would be over without much bloodshed.
www.startlearningnow.com /Huascar.htm   (409 words)

  
 HuAscar: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Huascar: Twelfth Emperor 267...disastrous civil commotions between Huascar and Atahualpa.
Huascar F. Pessali and Ramon G. Fernandez are Assistant Professor and...
Anchored in Talcahuanos harbor is the Peruvian warship Huascar, whose capture decisively established Chilean naval supremacy during the War of the Pacific (1879...
www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/101249937   (972 words)

  
 The Peruvian Navy 1   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Huascar, without a doubt the most important Peruvian warship, was a low-freeboard turret ironclad, model Ericsson, built in England by Laird Bros. in 1865.
Despite the fact that the Independence was twice as big, Huascar´s artillery damaged the funnel of the ironclad and killed one of her crew, escaping unharmed.
Huascar on the other hand, became a celebrity for being the first ship in naval history to face and avoid an attack by locomotive torpedoes under combat in high seas, and to be the first and last ironclad to fight British wooden ships.
www.cronab.demon.co.uk /peru1.htm   (2289 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Huascar
Huascar, in full Inti Cusi Huallpa Huáscar (“Sun of Joy”) (died 1532).
Huascar was killed by his men near Cajamarca.
His father Huayna Capac may have intended Huascar to be the Inca, and his brother Atahualpa to be the governor of the Quito province.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Huascar   (291 words)

  
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Huascar was without a doubt, if not the biggest, the most important and legendary warship of Peru´s 19th century navy.
A low-freeboard turret ironclad, model Ericsson, built in England in 1865, she displaced 1,130 tons, was 67 meters long, 11 meters wide and had a 1,500 horse power engine.
Huascar fought to the last against two heavy battleships and a shchooner.
members.lycos.co.uk /Juan39/THE_HUASCAR.html   (343 words)

  
 The Incas
To ingratiate himself with Huascar, this prince sent rich gifts to Cuzco, but the Inca's fury mounted and he killed the messengers ordering drums to be made from their corpses.
In these circumstances, the Cañaris in favor of Huascar took advantage of Atahualpa's negligence to make him prisoner and they locked him up in a tambo, but during the night Atahualpa succeeded in making a hole in the wall with a copper bar a woman provided for him and silently escaped.
Huascar did not give the royal ayllus the attention to which they were accustomed and did not attend public meals in the plaza where the bonds of reciprocity and kinship were strengthened.
incas.perucultural.org.pe /english/hissurg11.htm   (614 words)

  
 ISS - First Inka Prophecy
It is the destiny of the Indian Nations and all conscious peoples of the Americas to release Huascar from the Underworld (Hujupacha) where he has lived since the fall of the Inka Empire.
Ambushed and killed by his only brother who had struck a fateful deal with the “half human, half animal white men,” Inkan tradition required that Huascar be banished to the Hujupacha for not fulfilling his life’s destiny; namely, the safekeeping and development of the medicine traditions.
Huascar and the ancient healing ways have been distilling and maturing in the dark fertile Underworld ever since.
www.inkasunstaff.org /FirstProphecy.html   (800 words)

  
 Table of Contents and Excerpt, Betanzos, Narrative of the Incas
Huascar, on the other hand, was born in a small town south of Cuzco, took scant interest in the military, openly slept with married women, killed their husbands if they complained, and drank to excess (chaps.
Doña Angelina, who, as a child of ten, spent the months after the conquest in 1532 in Atahualpa's camp, remembered the Incas' reactions to the Spaniards, their concern about whether the Spaniards were viracocha gods or mere men, whether they should be attacked, Atahualpa's treatment as a prisoner, and his death (chaps.
After the sudden death of Huayna Capac, the bitter civil war between his sons Huascar and Atahualpa emerges as a test of honor rivaling that of the proudest Spaniard.
www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exbetnar.html   (4072 words)

  
 Huascar - The Great Unknown, The Great Explorers   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Huascar was the second son of the 11
Huascar, the oldest son, inherited half of the empire and particularly the southern Cuzco area while at the same time Atahualpa, the other son of Huayna Capac and the younger half-brother of Huascar, inherited the northern part around Quito.
The results of this battle was Huascar to be defeated, captured and drowned by Atahualpa who was scared that he might be reinstated.
www.phfawcettsweb.org /huascar.htm   (141 words)

  
 Huascar. Jobbade flera veckor – fick en femhundring. — Arbetaren
När Arbetaren träffar Huascar i Skärholmens LS lokal i Alby utanför Stockholm, är han för tillfället arbetslös.
Huascar har försökt flera gånger, men arbetsgivaren är aldrig inne.
Nu har han fått besked om att han ska ringa klockan 17 senare samma dag.
www.arbetaren.se /articles/inrikes20061018-5   (648 words)

  
 Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire Summary
At the centre of the conflict were the two main contenders, Huascar and Atahualpa, who were both sons of Huayna Capac.
Huascar may have been proclaimed the new emperor, though no records remain to confirm that he was indeed the intended heir.
Regarded as ugly, bad-mannered and half-mad, Huascar was known for his cruelty and came close to murdering his sister and mother.
www.bookrags.com /Spanish_conquest_of_the_Inca_Empire   (3629 words)

  
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Below, the Abtao, the 1,600-ton corvette built in 1865 and armed with five guns, was severely damaged during the june 9th combat against Huascar on the coasts of Antofagasta.
Among other vessels captured by Huascar were the Adriana Lucia, the Adelaida Rojas, the E. Saucy Jack and the Emilia.
During her third campaign Huascar also almost sunk the 877-ton armed transport Matias Cousiño, which did not occur because Grau, gentleman as he was, oredered the evacuation of her entire crew before opening fire.
members.tripod.co.uk /Juan39/HuascarVictims.html   (231 words)

  
 the Hobby Factory
Built in Britain for the Peruvian Navy, the Huascar had an active service life of over 20 years, fought in 5 major wars and served in 2 navies.
Armed with a Coles-type turret mounting two 10" MLR guns, she sank the Chilean frigate xx with gunfire, rammed and sank the Chilean firgate Esmaralda and fought the Royal Navy steam frigate HMS Shah (an action that included the first use of locomotive torpedos).
The model can be built to show the Huascar as she appeared when first built or as she appears today.
www.hobbyfactory.com /p1024/Turret-ship-Huascar/product_info.html   (166 words)

  
 Senior Thesis   (Site not responding. Last check: )
At first Pizarro told native peoples that he favored Huascar, because as Pedro Pizarro wrote, the Spaniards believed Huascar to be “the natural Lord of the kingdom.”[19] But after he heard that Atahualpa had captured Huascar, he shifted his alliance to Atahualpa, because after all, “legitimacy” is not important when it comes to strategy.
By Agustín de Zárate’s account, Huascar was on his way to Cajamarca when he met up with some Spanish soldiers, whom he promised gold if they would bring him to Pizarro and have the conquistador settle the case between the two brothers.
With the death of Huascar, some of the Spaniards began to fear that Atahualpa would gain control of the empire, and they were afraid of an uprising.
home.comcast.net /~rhonda-lou2/senior_thesis.htm   (8388 words)

  
 Pizarro Versus the Incas (Morgana's Observatory)
Both Atahualpa and his half-brother Huascar had claimed the throne after their father, Huayna Capac, died in 1525 without formally naming his successor.
Huascar was forced to witness the slaughter of the royal family; hundreds of women, men, and children were killed so Atahualpa could reign without further challenge.
When he learned that Huascar was promising the Spanish more gold for his own release, the ruthless Atahualpa secretly ordered his brother’s death.
www.dreamscape.com /morgana/pizarro.htm   (1185 words)

  
 huascar   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Carlos is the grandson of Dr. Huascar and Joan Castillo, Ponce, Puerto Rico, and the late John and Caroline Litchkowski.
Huascar announced a national strike for July 4...
Huascar Luna allegedly was driving the wrong way and killed himself...
www.hallamericanhistory.com /top/sites/10/1/huascar.html   (563 words)

  
 Inca Rulers
Huascar: Huascar was the eldest surviving son of the Inca Ruler Huayana Capac.
When he was appointed by the lords of Cuxco, but soon after the regretted their decision, when Huascar defiled the temples of his forefathers and treated his inca people crulely.
After Huascar and Atahualpa died, he was crowned king in 1534, by Fransco Pizarro, but was only consider a puppet.
www.pps.k12.or.us /schools-c/pages/westsylvan/student/Inca/p2/044/index.htm   (309 words)

  
 Miguel Grau
He re-entered the navy in 1860, was given command of the "Lersundi," and in 1865, when the war with Spain began, had reached the rank of captain.
On 21 May he attacked two small Chilean vessels off Iquique with the "Huascar" and "Independencia," and sank one of them, but the "Independencia" was disabled by the other.
His successful depredations on the coast caused the Chilian government to strain every nerve for the capture of the "Huascar." On 8 October, in thick, foggy weather, while the Peruvian vessels were cruising near Antofagasta, Grau was surprised and forced to a combat by the Chilian fleet.
www.famousamericans.net /miguelgrau   (1041 words)

  
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Diehard:"Vhat is ze nature of your request, Huascar?" Huascar:"A dog daemon has taken possession of the Queen's mind and it is trying to take power from her." Both Diehard and Fortus look at each other in confusion, then in shock as they look back at him.
Huascar has his arms folded across his chest and grinning while Fortus and the troops have M4A1 rifles pointed at the group.
Huascar." Huascar leads as Fortus and his troops escort Tawla and Striker off the pavilion at gun point.
gerhard.n.tripod.com /tiger/hiddencities.txt   (8908 words)

  
 Under the Chilian Flag, by Harry Collingwood, Chapter 05   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The men were then dismissed to their quarters, and almost immediately afterwards—at eight o’clock in the morning—the Huascar fired the first shot, which fell right between the two Chilian ships, and then began one of the most memorable sea-fights that have ever been recorded in history.
The Peruvian ironclads steamed slowly along toward their prey, the Huascar firing her two 10-inch turret-guns as she came, but she was somewhat handicapped by the circumstance that there was great risk of her shot striking the town, which was, of course, still in Peruvian hands.
The next second the Peruvian monitor struck her with a concussion that threw every man to the deck; but the blow was fortunately a glancing one, and the Huascar rubbed harmlessly along the sides of the sloop, coming to a standstill alongside her in consequence of the entanglement of some raised port-shutters.
www.athelstane.co.uk /collngwd/chilflag/cflag05.htm   (2777 words)

  
 Off the Beaten Path - Chile Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
Built in Britain in 1864 and once the pride of the Peruvian navy, the ironclad gunship "Huascar" is much more than an historic relic, one of only two such survivors of this period of naval history afloat anywhere in the world.
To Chileans, she is hugely symbolic, a tangible reminder of the War of the Pacific that saw Peru and Bolivia ceding large areas of land to Chile and to Chile establishing itself as the major naval power on this side of the Pacific at that time.
Relations between the two countries under whose flag she sailed have improved since her days at sea and today she is a shrine to the heroes of both navies, a unique distinction, and held to be the grave of her last Peruvian commander, who lost his life when she was finally taken.
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/South_America/Chile/Off_the_Beaten_Path-Chile-R-1.html   (1429 words)

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