Juan de Sanct Martín, also known as Juan de San Martín, was a Spanish
conquistador. Little is known about De Sanct Martín, apart from a passage in ''
El Carnero
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'' (1638) by
Juan Rodríguez Freyle and ''
Epítome de la conquista del Nuevo Reino de Granada'', a work of uncertain authorship.
[''Epítome'', p.82] He took part in the expedition from Santa Marta into the Eastern Ranges
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of the Colombian Andes
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Juan de Sanct Martín headed the left flank of the Spanish troops in the Battle of Tocarema against the Panche on August 20, 1538, while his fellow conquistador Juan de Céspedes commanded the right flank. In this battle, Juan de Sanct Martín killed the ''cacique'' of the Panche and was hurt himself.[Rodríguez Freyle, 1638, p.117] Juan de Sanct Martín had confronted the Panche the year before, when he was sent to the west while De Céspedes went south. Due to the resistance of the bellicose Panche, De Sanct Martín returned to the Spanish camp.[Blanco Barros, s.a., p.3]
Conquest by Juan de Sanct Martín
See also
*List of conquistadors in Colombia
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* Spanish conquest of the Muisca
*'' El Dorado''
* Hernán Pérez de Quesada
* Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
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16th-century Spanish people
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Spanish conquistadors
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History of the Muisca
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