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Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala (c. 1535 [1] – after 1616), also known as Huamán Poma or Waman Poma, was a Quechua nobleman known for chronicling and denouncing the ill treatment of the natives of the Andes by the Spanish Empire after their conquest of Peru. [2]
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Guaman Poma was an indigenous Peruvian who became disillusioned with the treatment of the native peoples of the Andes by the Spanish after conquest. Today, he is noted for his illustrated chronicle, Nueva Crónica y Buen Gobierno .
The Battle of Midway has often been called "the turning point of the Pacific". [183] It was the Allies' first major naval victory against the Japanese. [184] Had Japan won the battle as thoroughly as the U.S. did, it might have been able to capture Midway Island.
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However, during the third battle, the Alcahuisa sinchi was captured and eventually imprisoned for life, while the lands owned by his people were split between the people of Cusco. Satisfied with the victory and having achieved the consolidation of his power around Cusco, Mayta Capac prepared his army for an expedition towards the Cunti people ...
This is the order of battle for the Battle of Midway, a major engagement of the Pacific Theatre of World War II, fought 4–7 June 1942 by naval and air forces of Imperial Japan and the United States in the waters around Midway Atoll in the far northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
The Incas tried diplomacy, offering peace and friendship, claiming they were not going to take their land and property but to give them a way to live as men. The Purumaucas responded saying that they came not to waste time in vain words and reasoning, but to fight until they won or died. The Incas promised battle the next day. [12]