Miguel Hidalgo and Mexico

Raniesha Thomas Estela Ayala

Melissa ArroyoMohammed Saleh

Miguel Hidalgo Birth and childhood.

● Miguel Hidalgo was born in 1753. He was one of the oldest kids in his family. He was second of 11 kids.

● He went to a Jesuits school with one of his brothers.

Miguel and the Mexican War of IndependenceMiguel kicked off Mexico’s struggle for independence from Spain on September 16, 1810 when he issued his famous “Cry of Dolores” in which he exhorted Mexicans to rise up and throw off Spanish tyranny. For almost a year , he led the independence movement , battling Spanish forces in and around Central Mexico. Hidalgo was captured and executed in 1811 , but others picked up the struggle and Miguel Hidalgo is considered the father of the country to this day. Miguel was an unlikely revolutionary. well into his 50’s he became a parish priest and noted theologian with no real history of insubordination.Inside the quiet priest beat the heart of a rebel , however , and on september 16, 1810 he took to the pulpit in the town of Dolores and demanded that the people take up arms and free their nation.

1. Miguel hidalgo y Costilla a was a mexican Catholic priest who called for revolution against the spanish on September 16, 1810.

2. Father hidalgo rang the church bell to announce revoultion against the spanish.

3. The anniversary of his call is celebrated as Mexico’s independent Day.4. Mexican priest and a leader of the Mexican War of Independence.5. He marched across Mexico and gathered an army of nearly 90,000 poor

farmers and Mexican civilians who attacked and killed both Spanish Peninsulares and Creole elites.

6. These troops ran into a clan of 6,000 well trained and armed Spanish troops, and most fled or were killed at the Battle of Calderón Bridge on 17 January 1811, Hidalgo was executed by a firing squad on 30 July 1811 at Chihuahua, Chihuahua.

Conclusion

Miguel Hildalgo led the Mexican Independence movement against Spanish rule in 1810 and

unleashed a torrent of political passions that rocked Mexico for the first sixty years of its history as a

nation. Spanish Troops intercepted Hildalgo and Catholic authorities happily stripped him of his

ecclesiastical protections. He did before a firing squad in Chihuahua in the summer of 1811 but the

forces he had released would ravage Mexico for decades. Mexico gained its independence in 1821.

ec·cle·si·as·ti·cal

iˌklēzēˈastikəl/adjective

1. of or relating to the Christian Church or

its clergy.

links:

1. http://marcelogfernandez.blogspot.com/2013/01/1810-guadalajara-hidalgo.html

2. http://academics.sru.edu/history/staff/pearcy/web_proj/rice/

3. http://www.biografiascortas.com/2012/02/biografia-de-miguel-hidalgo.html

http://www.biography.com/people/miguel-hidalgo-y-costilla-38601#synopsis

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Hidalgo_y_Costilla

4. http://masaryk.tv/79247/-miguel-hidalgo-pensamiento-vivo-de-un-patriota#prettyPhoto[gallery1]/0/

links:

http://www.vanguardia.com.mx/miguel_hidalgo_y_costilla,_201_anos_desde_su_fusilamiento-1341410.html

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