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Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:49:22 +0100

Insurrection

In 1810, in the quiet city of Querétaro, the corregidor
Don Miguel Domínguez and his wife Josefa Ortiz de
Domínguez organized "literary gatherings," meetings
where they also discussed the political situation in
New Spain. They were conspiring: little by little, they planned a
movement against the viceregal government. They intended
to launch an insurrection in December, during the San Juan de los Lagos fair.

When they were denounced, the conspirators had to move up
the date; Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, the officer of the
Queen's Regiment Ignacio Allende, Ignacio Aldama
and twelve other men went to the town jail in
Dolores to free the prisoners and add them to the small group
of insurgents who decided to rise up against the authorities
of New Spain. It was dawn on Sunday, September 16.

The parish bell would ring for Mass. Father Hidalgo's call armed 80 men with swords and lances.

Father Hidalgo addressed the crowd. With the cry of "Long live America! Death to bad government!" a long civil war began that would separate New Spain from the Spanish Empire.
Mexico would be born as a sovereign nation. Within hours, six hundred men with rifles, swords, lances, farming tools, sticks, and stones began the adventure of Independence.