Information AboutMiguel Hidalgo |
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Don Miguel Hidalgo, in full '''Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Mandarte Villaseñor y Lomelí''' ( 8 May 1753 – 30 July 1811 ), was the chief instigator of Mexico's War Of Independence against Spain . Hidalgo was a '' Criollo '' (Mexican of pure Spanish ancestry), and the parish priest of Dolores, now called Dolores Hidalgo , a small town in the modern-day central Mexican state of Guanajuato . He was a keen reader of banned French literature and was an avid nonconformist. He learned several indigenous languages and openly defied many aspects of Catholic rule including that of sexual abstinence for the clergy. In the mining region of central Mexico Miguel Hidalgo and other Creoles of high society started conspiring for a considerable uprising of Mestizo s and indigenous Peasant s. Alerted by , and Death to the Spaniards!" Hidalgo, and his unruly followers dispersed after only a few months. Hidalgo himself was captured, forced publicly to repent, and then was executed for his crimes. Hidalgo is remembered even today as the great liberator of Mexico and the Father Of The Nation . |
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