Mexico´s independence.

Mexico´s independence

The period of our history known as the war of independence begins (strictly speaking) the morning of September 16, 1810, when Father Miguel Hidalgo called "cry of Dolores" and ends on September 27, 1821 (11 years later) with the triumphal entry Trigarante army headed by Agustín de Iturbide and Vicente Guerrero, a jubilant city of Mexico. The target main of this movement (armed and social) was release to our territory of the yoke Spanish and that, in each corner of the colony is forget by full the concept of Viceroyalty.

As is logical of assume, before 1810 there were background ideological notable aimed "by that hunger of freedom" that already operated, mainly, in the minds of them Creole (people born in Mexico but of parents European); It is known that, before exploding the independence, one of the great thinkers of the time, fray Melchor de Talamantes, had managed to circulate several subversive writings which stated that Mexican territory, for having "all the resources and powers for the food, conservation, and happiness of its inhabitants", could be independent and that, as well as possible, the independence of Mexico was desirable because the Spanish Government did not deal the general good of the new Spain as was occupy a free Government, consisting of purely Mexican.

Independence stages

According to specialists, the study of the historical development of this important revolutionary movement can be understood better if reviewed, carefully, the following four times or more far-reaching steps:

First stage

Covers from the cry of Dolores (16 of September of 1810) until the battle of bridge of Calderón (in the current municipality of Zapotlanejo, Jalisco, the 17 of January of 1811), when the crowd directed by Hidalgo-with its famous banner Guadalupe in hand-fought with more passion and threw that strategy. At this time, when the priest from Dolores came to its appointment with history on the bridge, its forces are calculated at around one hundred thousand men (between Creoles, Indians, mestizos and people of caste). Moreover, the realists, soldiers loyal to the Spanish Crown and the viceroy, should haunt among the 50 thousand troops.

Second stage

In this period it enters scene José María Morelos y Pavón. This ranges from principles of 1811 to the taking of the Fort of San Diego in Acapulco (in August 1813). During this time, them insurgent is scored several triumphs being them more dreamed them obtained in the regions of the Centre-in Cuautla (Morelos), where arrived to break an important fence- and in the South-in Acapulco and Chilpancingo (in Warrior), where even managed the first Congress of Anahuac-of the current Mexican republic

Third stage

This is characterized by a great

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