| John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 558 pages
...Indians ? Set on at once ! I absolve you." Pizarro saw that the hour had come. He waved a white scarf in the air — the appointed signal. The fatal gun was...Spaniard in the city, as rushing from the avenues of the halls in which they were concealed, they poured into the plaza, horse and foot, each in his own dark... | |
| Richard Garnett - Readers - 1905 - 494 pages
...at once! I absolve you." Pizarro saw that the hour had come. He waved a white scarf in the air—the appointed signal. The fatal gun was fired from the...which they were concealed, they poured into the plaza, and threw themselves into the midst of the Indian crowd. The latter, taken by surprise, stunned by... | |
| Charles Francis Horne, Rossiter Johnson - World history - 1905 - 434 pages
...Indians ? Set on at once! I absolve you." Pizarro saw that the hour had come. He waved a white scarf in the air, the appointed signal. The fatal gun was fired...and his followers shouted the old war-cry of " St. lago and at them!" It was answered by the battle-cry of every Spaniard in the city, as, rushing from... | |
| Isabel Moore - Readers - 1906 - 360 pages
...Indians ? Set on at once ; I absolve you." Pizarro saw that the hour had come. He waved a white scarf in the air, the appointed signal. The fatal gun was fired...Spanish captain and his followers shouted the old war cry of " St. Jago and at them ! " It was answered by the battle cry of every Spaniard in the city,... | |
| Mrs. Howard Taylor - Peru - 1909 - 560 pages
...Pizarro saw that the hour had come. He waved a white scarf in the air — an appointed signal — and the fatal gun was fired from the fortress. Then, springing...shouted the old war-cry of, " St. Jago, and at them ! " Trampled under the fierce charge of cavalry, panic-stricken, unarmed, surrounded, blinded by the... | |
| Mrs. Howard Taylor - Peru - 1909 - 564 pages
...Pizarro saw that the hour had come. He waved a white scarf in the air — an appointed signal — and the fatal gun was fired from the fortress. Then, springing...shouted the old war-cry of, " St. Jago, and at them ! " Trampled under the tierce charge of cavalry, panic-stricken, unarmed, surrounded, blinded by the... | |
| Christian Libery Press, Garry J. Moes - Education - 1999 - 452 pages
...the hour had come. He waved a white scarf in the air. The fatal gun was fired from the fortress.... Rushing from the avenues of the great halls in which they were concealed, the Spaniards poured into the plaza, horse and foot, and threw themselves into the midst of the Indians.... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1847 - 570 pages
...' where are the strangers ?' * * * " Pizarro saw that the hour had come. He waved a white scarf in the air, the appointed signal. The fatal gun was fired...square, the Spanish captain and his followers shouted tho old war cry of ' St. Jago and at them ! ' It was answered by the battle cry of every Spaniard in... | |
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