Many Spaniards and natives, disgusted with Pizarro’s…
April 1548 CE
Many Spaniards and natives, disgusted with Pizarro’s brutal rule, have flocked to Gasca’s banner.
The opposing forces meet at Xaquixaguana (or, in Spanish, Jaquijahuana), near Cuzco, on April 5 or 9, 1548.
Most of Pizarro's officers and men go over to Gasca, with the exception of Francisco de Carvajal, dubbed the Demon of the Andes.
Forty-five of Pizarro’s men are killed in battle; Gasca loses only one.
No longer supported with an army against the King's new representative, Gonzalo Pizarro surrenders and is beheaded by the royal forces, together with some of his important followers, including the octogenarian Carvajal, at the field of battle.
Gonzalo is the last of the Pizarro brothers to die a violent death (with Hernando dying of old age in Spain some three or six decades later).
Gasca disperses the adventurers, rewards the royalists, and pardons the majority of the rebels.
He reorganizes the administration of justice and the collection of taxes, and he issues several regulations opposed to the oppression of the indigenous people.
Gasca is tactful and judicious, but unyielding in his devotion to duty.
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