Episode 12 - That Which They Call Conquest

With the Spanish empire trying to eliminate the last centers of resistance in the archipelago, Agüeybaná the Brave and the other Taíno warriors took refuge in the Lesser Antilles and continued to harass the colonizers from there throughout the rest of the 16th century.

If you want more information on the topic, please see the main references for the episode below:

• La Colonización de Puerto Rico: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/gdc/lhbpr/19425/19425.pdf, 
• La Conquista Española y la Gran Rebelión de los Taínos: https://www.yumpu.com/es/document/view/14611729/la-conquista-espanola-y-la-gran-rebelion-de-los-tainos,
• Historia general y natural de las Indias por Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés https://ems.kcl.ac.uk/content/etext/e026.html
• Elegías de varones ilustres de Indias  de Castellanos: https://www.clas.rutgers.edu/files/180/Digitized-Books-and-Publications/645/Elegias-de-varones-ilustres-de-indias.pdf,
• Nuevas fuentes para la historia de Puerto Rico; documentos ineditios o poco conocidos cuyos originales se encuentran en el Archivo General de Indias en la ciudad de Sevilla, Espana: https://archive.org/details/nuevasfuentespar0000aure/page/118/mode/2up, 

• Historia de las Indias Tomo III de Bartolomé de las Casas: https://web.seducoahuila.gob.mx/biblioweb/upload/Historia%20de%20las%20Indias%203.pdf,

• Historia militar de Puerto Rico https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_GOQISe_Kh1AC.

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The image for this episode comes from Theodor de Bry's Great Voyages series published in 1596.