Collection of Peruvian manuscripts,1790-1800, 1820 Bulk, 1790-1800 1790-1820

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Collection of Peruvian manuscripts,1790-1800, 1820 Bulk, 1790-1800 1790-1820

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This collection includes nineteen documents relating principally to the revolt of Tupac Amaru II (José Gabriel Condorcanqui), the last claimant to the throne of the Incas (1780-1783). The materials refer to his rebellion, capture, and execution. Other documents in the collection concern medicine, manners, learned organizations, the making of wills, and the history of the Spanish conquest of Oran, 1505-1509.

1.0 Volume(s), 1 volume, ca. 200 p., copy

American Philosophical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 6631379

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Tupac Amaru, Mariano, 1762-1784

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Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851

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Charleston and Georgetown, S.C. attorney, plantation owner, and politician. Poinsett served as the U.S. Secretary of War under President Martin Van Buren from 1837 to 1841. From the description of Letters, 1837-1839. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 37522812 U.S. diplomat and secretary of war. An amateur of natural history, he imported and cultivated the Mexican flower named in his honor, and was one of the founders in 1840 of the National Institu...