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 ...

15 outside the national palace in Mexico City and in Mexican ... 16, 1810. The mass turned into a speech by the parish priest in which he proclaimed the independence of his people, calling for ...

16, 1810 — a call to action by priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla to fight for Mexico’s independence from Spain, according to the Library of Congress. This began the 11-year Mexican War of ...

Monday, September 16, is Mexican Independence Day, the anniversary of Mexico’s declaration ... because of the significance to our own community in California. In 1810, Alta California was still part ...

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 ...