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TIL A force of 180 soldiers with only 12 firearms among them met the emperor of the Incas in the middle of a square in the city of Cajamarca. They massacred his retinue of 9000, capturing the emperor, while his army of 80,000 veterans stationed right outside the walls fled in terror without a fight

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