Tom Holland
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And basically everybody thinks there's going to be this huge inter-Spanish battle.
but one of them blinks.
And do you know what?
This is a very poor advertisement for Tabby's Old School because the person who blinks is Pedro.
After all that... What's going on there?
He's lost his bottle.
He's completely lost his nerve.
I think because he's covered with snow and volcanic ash and he's killed all his people, he's lost his mojo a little bit because basically he does a deal.
He will sell all his ships and gear to Almagro for 100,000 gold pieces.
All his men that have come with him, the ones who are still left, will stay in Peru and work for the other Spanish generals.
But he himself, Alvarado, agrees that he will leave Peru and never come back.
That is a shame.
And he goes back to Guatemala, sort of in disgrace.
And if people want to know what happened to him...
His later life, there was a lot more sort of roistering around in Mexico and Central America, a lot of killing people and unnecessary cruelty.
And he ended up dying in a very amusingly banal way.
He died in 1541 in a freak accident when a horse sat on him, didn't he?
Yeah, a horse fell on him.
He had a very impressive wife.
Doรฑa Luisa.