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Pizarro, Francisco, approximately 1475-1541

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  • Sheridan presented as Francisco Pizarro presented as a physician; representing his loyalty to the British Crown against the Franch Revolution and Bonaparte. Coloured aquatint, 1799.
  • Vincente Valverde trying to persuade the Inca to convert to Christianity rather than be massacred by Pizzarro. Engraving by W. Greatbach after H.P. Briggs.
  • Atahualpa (?) begging Pizarro for mercy. Etching by A.C.F. Villerey after N. Vallain.
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    The spaniards in Peru; or, The death of Rolla. A tragedy, in five acts: by Augustus Von Kotzebue. The original of the play performing at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, under the title of Pizarro. Translated from the German by Anne Plumptre. Translator of Kotzebue's Virgin of the sun, &c.

    Kotzebue, August von, 1761-1819. | Date: 1799
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    The spaniards in Peru; or, the death of Rolla. A tragedy, in five acts: by Augustus von Kotzebue. Translated from the German by Anne Plumptre, Translator Of Kotzebue's Virgin Of The Sun, &C.

    Kotzebue, August von, 1761-1819. | Date: 1799
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    Pizarro; or, the conquest of Peru: as related by a father to his children, and designed for the instruction of youth. In two volumes. Translated from the German of J. H. Campe, (author of the New Robinson Crusoe) by Elizabeth Helme, Author of Instructive Rambles in London and its Environs, the Abridgment of Plutarch's Lives, Etc. Etc.

    Campe, Joachim Heinrich, 1746-1818. | Date: 1800
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    Alzuma, a tragedy. As performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden.

    Murphy, Arthur, 1727-1805. | Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]
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    Pizarro; a tragedy, in five acts; as performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane: taken from the German drama of Kotzebue; and adapted to the English stage by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

    Kotzebue, August von, 1761-1819. | Date: [1799]
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