Table of Contents

Contents

List of Maps and Tables

Foreword

Preface and Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: The Other Andean Conquest

2. Three Capitulaciones: Don Pedro Fernández de Lugo and the Governorship of Santa Marta

3. By Land and by Sea: From Santa Marta to La Tora

4. Into the Highlands: From La Tora to Muisca Territory

5. Treasure, Torture, and the Licenciado’s Return

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

J. Michael Francis is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Florida.

Reviews

“To add to the tragic brutalities of Cortés’s conquest of Mexico and Pizarro’s conquest of Peru, J. Michael Francis now offers us an admirable reconstruction of the hitherto unexplored events that took place to the east of Peru. His Invading Colombia: Spanish Accounts of the Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada Expedition of Conquest is the result of an exhaustive exploration of Sevillian archives. Accompanied by a lively introduction, and by commentaries and annotations that are as reliable as they are readable, the book poses the intriguing question of why an exploration that led more Spaniards into Colombia than Cortés led into Mexico, or Pizarro into Peru, should have remained almost completely unknown.”—Fernando Cervantes Times Literary Supplement

“Not only does this volume present a fascinating story as told by participants and contemporaries, its impeccable scholarship, useful maps, tables, and index, and the lucidity of Francis’s writing will make it valuable not only to students but to others as well who are interested in the early period of Spanish expansion in the Americas and the varied peoples they encountered there.”—Ida Altman Journal of Military History