Almagro, Diego

DE, a Spaniard of low origin, who accompanied Pizarro in the expedition against Peru, in which his valor, profligacy, and cruelty were equally displayed. In 1525 he took Cuzco, the capital of Chili, by storm, and put Atahualpa, the last of the Incas, to a most cruel death; but quarrelling with the brothers of Pizarro about the division of their spoil, he was taken prisoner and strangled, 1538. Alma'gro, a town of Spain, prov. of La Mancha. 12 m. E.S.E. of Ciudad Real. It has an important manuf. of blondes (lace). Pop . 12,605. Al'magueral, a town of New Granada, S. America, 40 m. from Popayan. It is built on a table-land, 7,440 feet above the level of the sea.