Shortly before dawn on September 16, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla made a monumentous ... Although a movement toward Mexican independence had already been in progress since Napoleon's conquest of ...

Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was born in Veracruz state in 1794. Growing up in the steamy region gave him an immunity to the ...

Although the Mexican Revolution ended a half-century ... the fervent but inept tocsin-sounder of the Revolution of 1810.) To the old regime in Zapata's time, he was a bandit of a new Attila ...