García Hurtado de Mendoza y Manrique, 5th Marquis of Cañete was a Spanish Governor of Chile, and later Viceroy of Peru. He is often known simply as "Marquis of Cañete". Belonging to an influential fam
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Mendoza, Villagra y Quiroga in an illustration by Alonso de Ovalle
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Galvarino was a famous Mapuche warrior during the majority of the early part of the Arauco War. He fought and was taken prisoner along with 150 other Mapuche, in the Battle of Lagunillas against gover
García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete
…that prevented a victory. According to Alonso de Ercilla, who had arrived in Chile with the governor, the Spanish took prisoner the Indigenous leader Galvarino and cut off his left hand. He lost the hand without a grimace of pain and then extended the other, which the Spanish also cut off. He asked for death…
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