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veterans, called "the men of Chile," to the number of several hundred, remained scattered throughout Peru, feeling the most bitter hatred of the Pizarros for the deprivations and insults to which they were constantly subjected. They became young Diego's active partisans and compassed the death of Francisco Pizarro, but were at last defeated at the battle of Chupas, which decisive engagement ended the factional wars and bickerings so long continued between the adherents of Almagro and those of the Pizarros. Another leader, Pedro de Valdivia, is more intimately connected with the opening of Chile to Spanish interests than Almagro.
