Dominic Sandbrook
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It sounds like you're judging them.
I wouldn't be nervous.
From the heart of the Cotswolds.
Yeah.
He sends his lieutenant, Hernando de Soto.
He says, I want you to go over to Atterwell.
Go over to his camp.
Wherever he is, he's at these hot springs or whatever they are.
Take 15 of your best horsemen.
Take one of the interpreters with you.
The Spanish can't agree whether it's Felipe or Martini.
I don't know the difference.
Find out what he wants, what his plan is, where does he want us to stay, all of this.
Soto goes off with the cavalry, 15 men.
And Francisco goes for a walk with his brother Hernando.
And Hernando goes with him and says...
I think we made a mistake, actually.
You've just sent our best horsemen off to Attawelpa.
But there's only 15 of them.
And if the Incas turn on them, you know, it's curtains for them.