At Cancha Rayada (1818) where the troops of San MartÃn suffered a reverse, it was Las Heras who saved the day by his masterly retreat and coolness in the general confusion.
Lloque Yupanqui died,[156] leaving orders that the fringe or crown of the empire should be deposited in the temple of Curi-cancha until his son was of an age to reign.
The Inca took care to adorn the temple of Curi-cancha with great riches, as has already been mentioned.
The Inca returned to Cuzco, where he was received with great honour by the city, and the priests of the temple of Curi-cancha gave him many blessings.
An hour later, Philippa, her two daughters, and Dona Cancha joined them in prison, after vainly imploring the queen's protection.
Dona Cancha alone, by reason of her situation, escaped the torture, and her sentence was deferred till the day of her confinement.
Dona Cancha no longer put any bridle on her licentiousness, and the Empress of Constantinople ordered her niece to marry her eldest son, Robert, Prince of Tarentum.
His first act on entering the city was to order Dona Cancha to be burnt, her punishment having been deferred by reason of her pregnancy.
At the time when Manco Ccapac settled at Ynti-cancha and seized the goods of the Sauaseras and Huallas, the Alcabisas were settled half an arquebus shot from Ynti-canchi, towards the part where Santa Clara now stands.
So Lloqui Yupanqui lived in Ynti-cancha like his father[62].
With this object he caused a grand sacrifice to be offered to the Sun in the Inti-cancha or House of the Sun, and then went to ask the image of the Sun who should be Inca.
Inca Yupanqui also ordered the houses and temple of Quisuar-cancha to be built and, at this spot, Sir Clements Markham observed an ancient wall, with serpents carved upon it.
A surprise attack by night by the enemy at Cancha Rayada was unexpectedly successful and the combined armies of Argentine and Chile were defeated and dispersed, losing all their artillery and most of their military stores.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cancha" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
