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Huascar because he was born in a town called Huascar-quihuar, four and a half leagues from Cuzco.
History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
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The twentieth sovereign, called Huascar-Titupac, “gave all the provinces new governors of royal blood, and introduced in the army a cuirass made of cotton and copper.”
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Titu Cusi Hualpa Inti Illapa, called Huascar, to be Inca.
History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
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It was the "Huascar" which was now bearing down upon the "Arapiles."
Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 Henry James 1879
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Six months after the relief of the city, a Chilian sailor belonging to the "Huascar," which was lying off the Battery, stopped to watch a crowd of workmen who were busily engaged in clearing away the ruins of some tenement buildings near Tompkins Square.
Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 Henry James 1879
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Or if these may seem too near and real, and admitting less of effective accessories, there lie behind them all the great dramatic characters, Montezuma, Guatimozin, Huascar, and Atahualpa, to say nothing of the Malinche, that lost her country that she might save her love.
Edmonia Lewis’s “Death of Cleopatra” | Edwardian Promenade 2010
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Haymar Capac the Mighty, and Huascar, and Atahualpa the Unhappy, not one word.
Green Mansions 2004
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Partly it was the empire's exhausted condition after a five-year-long civil war between the brothers Atahuallpa and Huascar.
Exploring the Inca Heartland: Chronology of the Conquest 1999
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End of five-year civil war with capture of Huascar, who is later executed on Atahuallpa's order.
Exploring the Inca Heartland: Chronology of the Conquest 1999
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The Inca ruler Huayna Capac and his designated successor die of smallpox, which is spreading south from Panama, precipitating civil war between his sons Atahuallpa in Quito and Huascar in Cusco.
Exploring the Inca Heartland: Chronology of the Conquest 1999
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