Picture No | 12030528 |
Date | 1513 |
Description | Balboa attacked by the Dabaibe Indigenous people |
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa and his men fight with the indigenous people that lived in the Dabaibe region of what is now Columbia. Balboa and two men lift a heavy board above their heads to protect from arrows and spears being thrown from a tree above, a Spanish soldier strikes at a woman with a baby with a spear, and another bears down on a fallen man with his sword.
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Source | Engraving by Theodore de Bry |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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