Tom Holland
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No, they're not part of it.
So they advance towards Quito, and they get to the shadow of Mount Chimborazo.
That is so fantasy story, isn't it?
And at the hamlet of Teocajas, in the shadow of this mountain, this bloke, Ruminyawi, is waiting for them.
With his drum.
With his huge drum and his massive army.
Do you know, I reckon that Alvarado would, I mean, he'd find that a bloody good laugh.
With a drum?
Yeah.
You really would.
Anyway, this battle, right?
I mean, historians, first of all, they can't agree when it happened.
Possibly 3rd of May, 1534.
They don't even agree what to call it.
So some historians call it the Battle of Teocas.
Some people call it the Battle of Mount Chimborazo.
They can't agree.
It's a massive battle that no one knows anything about.
So the Spanish chronicler, Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo, claimed that there were 50,000 people fighting there.
Nine out of 10 of them were indigenous.