Military triumphs . His first military experience was gained in the army of Huayna Capac, in campaigns in North, where he distinguished himself for his outstanding military skills. On the death of the eleventh
Sapa Inca, Quizquiz remained in the wake of his son
Atahualpa, assuming the chief command of the armies of
Quito, contrasted with those of
Cuzco devoted to
Huáscar.
Juan de Betanzos reports in his
Narrative of the Incas that during the civil war Quizquiz led troops of 60,000 against Huáscar's troops. As supreme commander he organized, together with another prestigious general
Chalcuchimac, war against Cuzco. Quizquiz was responsible for the significant defeat and capture of Huáscar, where Huáscar planned to use a decoy advance guard that was to be later joined by the body of the army, however this decoy was destroyed before the rest of the army could join it. Defeating in several battles the armies of Huáscar, they achieved the final victory with the storming of the Inca Empire capital. As he was proceeding to the consolidation of power for Atahualpa in the region of Cuzco, the news came of the
tragedy of Cajamarca and the capture of his master by the Spanish. Atahualpa then had Chalcuchimac stay with half of his warriors in
Jauja, and Quizquiz with the other half in Cuzco.
Meeting with the Spanish Quizquiz was in Cuzco at the time of the Spaniards' arrival. Collecting the
ransom, Atahualpa had convinced
Francisco Pizarro to send three soldiers in the capital to personally check on the collection of gold. The three, Martín Bueno, Pedro Martin de Moguer and Pedro de Zárate, were treated honorably, despite their far from blameless behavior. The rude soldiers ventured to desecrate the temples and undermine the Virgins of the Sun, but the instructions from Atahualpa did not allow any appropriate measures to be taken against the three. "Thus fell the last of the two great officers of Atahualpa." == See also ==