Dolores Hidalgo

Grito de Dolores” also referred to as the Independence of Mexico, the Cry of Dolores. This national holiday celebrates the day Mexico won their freedom from the Spaniard rule in September 16, 1810. Miguel Hidalgo a priest was one of the nation’s great leaders during the War of Independence in Mexico. During Hidalgos time in Dolores the north-central part of the Mexican state of Guanajuato, he delivered famous cry of independence speech, also known as the cry of Dolores (el Grito de Dolores), on September

leads on to the stage of ordeal, death, rebirth. The capture and subsequent execution of Father Hidalgo and his successor Ignacio Allende, the bloody Battle of Medina, and the invasion of Nuevo Santander by General Arredondo all represent this stage. This stage is accompanied by the next stage, seizing the sword/reward. This stage is best represented by José María Morelos y Pavón, who took over after Hidalgo and Allende were both gone. Morelos was able to draft a clear and official declaration of independence

Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo-Costilla y Gallaga Mandarte Villaseñor was born on May 8, 1753. Miguel Hidalgo went to a secondary school called San Nicholás college in Valladolid which is now called Morelia when he was fifteen. He received a bachelors degree in theology in philosophy in 1773 and in 1778 was ordained a priest. Father Hidalgo then gathered thousands of peoples and captured multiple cities west of Mexico City. When Hidalgo reached the gates of the capitol he hesitated and

native Mexicans mostly (Mayas and Aztecs) were forced into hardship and slavery. More than 300 years later, on September 16, 1810, Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a renown Catholic priest, launches the Mexican War of Independence with the his issuing of the Grito de Dolores, or “Cry of Dolores”. In the early times of September 16, 1810, father Hidalgo, followed by several conspirators, Ignacio Allende, Doña Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, rang the bell of his little church, calling everyone to fight

circumstances have led individuals to develop or modify ideas, and these ideas have often affected societies. One individual was Napoleon Bonaparte, the first Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814, and again in 1815. Another individual is Father Hidalgo, a Mexican Roman Catholic priest and a leader of the Mexican War of Independence. Both individuals have profound ideas which impacted and influenced societies in many different ways. Napoleon Bonaparte was born on 15 August 1769.Napoleon was born

On September 15 I went to La Bienvenida that was held on campus, in the Peace Garden. Before this year, I have never heard of Hispanic heritage month and no one meant it in my high school. The only time I heard about a group of being recognized in a month is African Americans. This is commonly known as black history month, or also known as African American history month, is widely recognized and acknowledged. This is taken in February to remember important people and event that happened in history

rights was an ideal where people revolutionized because of limited rights, and thats when life, liberty, and property came to play, offering each estate equal freedom. The three documents supporting natural rights are the U.S. Constitution, Hidalgo 's Grito de Dolores, and the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen. Natural rights arose during the Enlightenment period, allowing society to revolutionize for there freedom and political influences. The importance of this ideal was to establish secured

by the way they were governed. The Criollos were frustrated because they were treated as unequal, also they were not allowed to take a role in local authority. What started as a small movement on Sept. 16th 1810, the Grito de Dolores revolt led by a priest named Miguel Hidalgo grew larger and larger as people began to fight for independence. Creoles, Mestizos, and workers from around the country joined Miguel in his revolution (“Colonial Mexico”). As time went on more revolts occurred. Over the Colonial

mother, Dolores, where she says “‘make him pay, son, for all those years that he put us out of his mind’”(3) referring to his father, Pedro Paramo. Juan Rulfo is referencing the Cry of Dolores, where Father Miguel Hidalgo called the citizens of Dolores, Mexico to take up arms against the ruling Spanish upper class and get revenge for the hundreds of years of Indian oppression and exploitation. In the same way that the Citizens of Dolores were called, Juan is called by his mother, Dolores, to get

Inquisition ("Father Hidalgo Proclaims Grito de Dolores”). Towards the year 1820, desire for independence within Mexico decreased, as there was an inner conflict between the peninsulares, creoles, and the lower classes, as the aspirations of the lower castes would reduce the political and economic power of those classes (Keen 169; Huck 51). But then there was a new leader of the independence movement: Agustin de Iturbide. Instead of continuing the legacies of Morelos and Hidalgo, he changed sides