An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . JOSSPH BON AP Mexicans were well acquainted with the advantages which thenneighbours had obtained. It is even possible that the political condition of Mexico wouldnot have undergone any change for a long time, but for the eventsin Europe and in Spain, in 1808. By the intrigues of Bonaparte, theroyal family were compelled to abdicate the throne of Spain, and heconferred the
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . JOSSPH BON AP Mexicans were well acquainted with the advantages which thenneighbours had obtained. It is even possible that the political condition of Mexico wouldnot have undergone any change for a long time, but for the eventsin Europe and in Spain, in 1808. By the intrigues of Bonaparte, theroyal family were compelled to abdicate the throne of Spain, and heconferred the whole Spanish monarchy on his brother Joseph, thenKing of Naples. The Spaniards in Mexico and the Creoles wereunanimous in declaring their resistance to the government establishedby the French. The viceroy could no longer receive orders fromSpain, and it was necessary to organize a government which shouldact independently under a certain sanction, and with , as to this point, they disagreed. The Creoles wished to esta-blish a national representation ; the Spaniards opposed the measureand prevented the establishment of a system of national representalion for Mexico HIDALGO AND MORELOS. 83. HE Creoles submitted ; but the publicmind had been agitated by the dis-cussions which had taken place,^ and soon afterwards, in 1810, thenatives and the mestizos rose against5^ the government. They were headedby Don Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla,J- the cura, or parish priest of Dolo-res, a small town in the state of ?^^^^^^ Guanaxuato. The Creoles sided with the Spanish governmeut. Hidalgo, who had soon an immenseforce with him, took Guanaxuato by storm, and occupied Valladolid,whence he advanced over the table-land of Tolucca to that of Teno-chtitlan. The Spanish governor sent a small corps against him,which was defeated by Hidalgo on the 30th of October at Las Cru-ces, a pass in the chain which separates the table-lands of Teno-chtitlan and Toluca. But, notwithstanding this victory,
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