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Dona Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez finds out about that the independence plan had been told to the Spaniards and runs and tadvices Ignacio Allende and Hidalgo.
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Miguel Hidalgo came to the mining city of Guanajuato while the Spaniards rushed to prepare a defense. After a 5 hours siege the granary which was recently fortified by the Spaniards was overrun and everybody inside was massacred.
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Miguel Hidalgo led around 80,000 Mexicans to Mexico City. They sent out every royalist soldier to meet with Miguel Hidalgo and the royalist soldiers and the 80,000 Mexicans in Monte de las Cruces.
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The Mexican rebels that were under the command of Miguel Hidalgo and Ignacio Allende were all running from the royalist soldiers. Eventually they prepared to defend the Calderon Bridge once they had better and advantageous ground.
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Hidalgo was executed on July 31, 1811 by firing squad. His body was mutilated, and his head was displayed in Guanajuato as a warning. Jose Maria Morelos y Pavóne replaced him as the leader of the independence movement. He had many different ideas and strategies on how to constitute a new nation.
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Morelos had become a fugitive and by November of 1815 he was campured by an enemy detachment and escorted to Mexico city. He was in court for treason and executed by a fiting squad.
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Insurgents are trying to retake their land. Secret meetings were held.
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After a series of conferences were held before the guerilla warrior and on February 24 1821 they could issue the Plan de Iguala.
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After eleven years of fighting, Iturbide's triumphal entry marked the end of the war. What was once New Spain became the independent. Mexico.
