/lit/ - Literature

Holy Shit, /lit/. I'm reading a book on the history of South America.

This dude, a Spanish conquistador called Francisco Pizarro, rocks up to Peru with a group of 168 Spaniards, and only 12 muskets between them. They are hungry, ill prepared, and thousands of miles from the nearest Spanish settlement. They get confronted by over 80,000 Incan warriors who have never experienced people from the 'new world'.

A huge procession is sent to greet the Spaniards, with mountains of gold, ornate costumes of parrot feathers, and the mighty Incan king sat on an enormous throne carried by 80 people. The Spaniards send a priest to offer the king a bible, and he throws it to the floor.

Now furious, Pizarro and his men then engage in 'battle' with the Incans, slaughter 7,000 warriors, capture the king, and subdue the entire army. Not a single Spaniard was harmed.

Pizarro then tells the Incan people he want's a ransom for the king, and gives them a few months to collect all the gold in the kingdom - enough to fill the carriage of an average underground train - then, when he has the gold, he executes the king anyway.


Any other accounts of a small group of people taking on an army and winning?