Ignacio de Allende y Unzaga and Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla were two of the main leaders in the Begining of the Mexican War of Independence in 1810.
But-- In July 1811, at Acatita de Bajan in Coahuila, the Hidalgo-Allende detachment was treacherously ambushed by Ignacio Elizonda, a Benedict Arnold figure who had been a rebel leader but then gone over to the Spaniards. Allende and Hidalgo were taken prisoner and marched over hot desert sands to Chihuahua. There, after a drumhead court martial, Allende was executed on August 1. Hidalgo, after being defrocked by the local bishop, was shot two days earlier.
SO WI they hadn't been captured, ?Could Mexico have been spared that whole
Iturbide as Emperor Mexico finasco? Ideas on what kind of Gov't Mexico would have had?
More Info-- http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/history/jtuck/jtiallende.html
But-- In July 1811, at Acatita de Bajan in Coahuila, the Hidalgo-Allende detachment was treacherously ambushed by Ignacio Elizonda, a Benedict Arnold figure who had been a rebel leader but then gone over to the Spaniards. Allende and Hidalgo were taken prisoner and marched over hot desert sands to Chihuahua. There, after a drumhead court martial, Allende was executed on August 1. Hidalgo, after being defrocked by the local bishop, was shot two days earlier.
SO WI they hadn't been captured, ?Could Mexico have been spared that whole
Iturbide as Emperor Mexico finasco? Ideas on what kind of Gov't Mexico would have had?
More Info-- http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/history/jtuck/jtiallende.html