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OnDaFence 36M/44M
44267 posts
9/15/2018 7:19 pm

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9/16/2018 7:10 pm

Happy Birthday !



Yes.... It's a Big Happy Birthday to our neighbors to the South. On September 16, 1810 the Mexican War of Independence began.



Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest, launches the Mexican War of Independence with the issuing of his Grito de Dolores, or “Cry of Dolores,” The revolutionary tract, so-named because it was publicly read by Hidalgo in the town of Dolores, called for the end of 300 years of Spanish rule in Mexico, redistribution of land, and racial equality. Thousands of Indians and mestizos flocked to Hidalgo’s banner of the Virgin of Guadalupe, and soon the peasant army was on the march to Mexico City.



In the early 19th century, Napoleon’s occupation of Spain led to the outbreak of revolts all across Spanish America. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla–“the father of Mexican independence”–launched the Mexican rebellion with his “Cry of Delores,” and his populist army came close to capturing the Mexican capital. Defeated at Calderón in January 1811, he fled north but was captured and executed. He was followed by other peasant leaders, however, such as José María Morelos y Pavón, Mariano Matamoros, and Vicente Guerrero, who all led armies of native and racially mixed revolutionaries against the Spanish and the Royalists.



Ironically, it was the Royalists–made up of Mexicans of Spanish descent and other conservatives–who ultimately brought about independence. In 1820, liberals took power in Spain, and the new government promised reforms to appease the Mexican revolutionaries. In response, Mexican conservatives called for independence as a means of maintaining their privileged position in Mexican society.


Agustín de Iturbide,

In early 1821, Agustín de Iturbide, the leader of the Royalist forces, negotiated the Plan of Iguala with Vicente Guerrero. Under the plan, Mexico would be established as an independent constitutional monarchy, the privileged position of the Catholic Church would be maintained, and Mexicans of Spanish descent would be regarded as equal to pure Spaniards. Mexicans of mixed or pure Indian blood would have lesser rights.



Guadalupe Victoria

Iturbide defeated the Royalist forces still opposed to independence, and the new Spanish viceroy, lacking money, provisions, and troops, was forced to accept Mexican independence. On August 24, 1821, Spanish Viceroy Juan de O’Donojú signed the Treaty of Córdoba, which approves a plan to make Mexico an independent constitutional monarchy. In 1822, as no Bourbon monarch to rule Mexico had been found, Iturbide was proclaimed the emperor of Mexico. However, his empire was short-lived, and in 1823 republican leaders Santa Anna and Guadalupe Victoria deposed Iturbide and set up a republic, with Guadalupe Victoria as its first president.


Santa Anna

OnDaFence 36M/44M

9/15/2018 7:23 pm

That Santa Anna guy is the same one as of Alamo and Texan Independence fame.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

9/15/2018 7:31 pm

Santa Anna pops IN & OUT of Mexican history. Santa Anna was taken by surprise at San Jacinto, and his army was annihilated on April 21, 1836. The captured Santa Anna, fearing execution, willingly signed an order calling for all Mexican troops to withdraw. Texas became an independent republic.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

9/15/2018 7:32 pm

Deposed during his captivity with the Texan rebels, Santa Anna returned to Mexico a powerless man. During the next two decades, however, the highly unstable political situation in Mexico provided him with several opportunities to regain-and again lose-his dictatorial power. All told, he became the head of the Mexican government 11 times. Overthrown for the last time in 1855, he spent the remaining two decades of his life scheming with elements in Mexico, the United States, and France to stage a comeback.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

9/15/2018 7:34 pm

Although he was clearly a brilliant political opportunist, Santa Anna was ultimately loyal only to himself and he had an insatiable lust for power. While Santa Anna played an important role in achieving Mexican independence, his subsequent governments were also at least partially responsible for the loss of the Southwest to the United States. He died in poverty and squalor in Mexico City at the age of 82, no doubt still dreaming of a return to power.


Hungr4Yungr 75M
5766 posts
9/15/2018 9:29 pm

What a great condensed version of Mexican independence. I never knew any of what you just taught me. Thank you.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

9/15/2018 10:01 pm

    Quoting Hungr4Yungr:
    What a great condensed version of Mexican independence. I never knew any of what you just taught me. Thank you.
Ol' Santa Anna was the original "come back kid" In his owsn way he worked for himself and Mexico. To me this is the very heart of my blogs; to inform, entertain, and to give a brief condensed point of history that most may not know. We also have that Hidalgo coin as pictured above.


bychance4709 61M

9/16/2018 5:48 pm

feliz cumpleaños!!!!!


OnDaFence 36M/44M

9/16/2018 7:10 pm

All the Mexicans must be out celebrating!