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MANOSALVAS, Hernan Venegas Carillo, South American
soldier, born in Cordova, Spain: died in Venezuela in 1583. He followed Gonzalo
Jimenez de Quesada to South America as a private soldier, served in New Grenada,
and rose rapidly in rank.
When the governor of that province resolved to send an
expedition, in 1544, to conquer the Panches and Pantagoros Indians, whose lands
were said to contain gold-mines, Manosalvas was offered the command. He accepted
it on condition that he should select his soldiers, and set out from Santa Fé
early in the year. He defeated the natives in several engagements, and, reaching
the country of the Panches, passed Magdalena river and discovered the sites of
Ibague, Santa Agueda, Ambalema, and Mariquita, and the mines of Sabandijas and
Venadillo. He then explored the banks of Pati (now Bogota) river, and founded,
on 6 April, 1544, the city of Tocaima, which soon became one of the most
prosperous in the colony, but was afterward ruined by an inundation. He founded
it anew on a higher level, but it did not achieve its old prosperity.
In 1547 he was sent to Spain by the council of New Grenada
to ask for the revocation of certain laws that had been enacted by the governor,
Armendariz, and he returned in 1548 after accomplishing the object of his
mission. He was afterward sent at the head of troops to aid Gasca (q. v.) in
putting down the rebellion of Gonzalo Pizarro in Peru; but learning on the way
that the rebel leader had been defeated, he returned to Santa Fé. He was
afterward sent on several missions to Spain in the interest of the colony.
MANOSALVAS, Hernan Venegas Carillo, South American soldier, born in Cordova, Spain: died in Venezuela in 1583. He followed Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada to South America as a private soldier, served in New" Grenada, and rose rapidly in rank. When the governor of that province resolved to send an expedition, in 1544, to conquer the Panches and Pantagoros Indians, whose lands were said to contain gold-mines, Manosalvas was offered the command. He accepted it on condition that he should select his soldiers, and set out from Santa Fe early in the year. He defeated the natives in several engagements, and. reaching the country of the Panches, passed Magdalena river and discovered the sites of Ibague, Santa Agueda, Ambalema, and Mariquita, and the mines of Sabandijas and Venadillo. He then explored the banks of Pati (now Bogota) river, and founded, on 6 April, 1544, the city of Tocaima, which soon became one of the most prosperous in the colony, but was afterward ruined by an inundation. He founded it anew on a higher level, but it did not achieve its old prosperity. In 1547 he was sent to Spain by the council of New Grenada to ask for the revocation of certain laws that had been enacted by the governor, Armendariz, and he returned in 1548 after accomplishing the object of his mission. He was afterward sent at the head of troops to aid Gasca (q. v.) in putting down the rebellion of Gonzalo Pizarro in Peru; but learning on the way that the rebel leader had been defeated, he returned to Santa F6. He was afterward sent on several missions to Spain in the interest of the colony.
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