Tumelo Revolt in Hispaniola

1510

Taino chieftains led by Enriquillo began a long guerilla war against Spanish encomenderos in the mountains of Hispaniola. The struggle would last thirteen years and force Charles V to negotiate personally. It was the first sustained indigenous resistance war in the Spanish Americas. Enriquillo's success forced Charles V to grant him freedom, a rare concession to indigenous resistance in the early colonial period.