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1503-fall

1503-fall: Ovando executed eighty district chiefs in Xaraguá by burning them alive inside a house and publicly hanged Queen Anacaona.

1503-fall: Ovando executed eighty district chiefs in Xaraguá by burning them alive inside a house and publicly hanged Queen Anacaona. This brutal action destroyed the last independent chiefdoms in Hispaniola and secured total Spanish control over the island.

Source  ·  p. 154 Rouse, The Tainos, 154