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Doña Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez, wife of the mayor, conceal these meetings as social gatherings. The conspiracy was discovered, and Doña Josefa broke the news to Captain Captain Ignacio Allendeand Aldama, the latter would get to Hidalgo.
The fact that the natives took to begin the liberation movement was the French occupation of Spain in 1808. In that year, Carlos IV and Fernando VIIabdicated in favor on Napoleon Bonaparte, then transfer it to his brother José Bonaparte, so that Spain remained a French protectorate. Without ignoring or underestimating the influence of theEnlightenment, the French Revolution and the Independence of the United States.
Such events led to the September 15, 1808, Francisco Primo de Verdad, and Fray Juan Francisco Azcarate Talamantes rise againstthe Viceroy José de Iturrigaray and, ignoring the City Council of the City of Mexico, proposed the creation of a Governing Board , similar to that operated in Spain against the invader, hoping that thepower passed to the people, ie, the rich Creoles, the reaction was swift peninsular and fearing that the colony's independence, jailed the rebels.
Another event relevant and material to rebuild theelements of the insurgency was the Conspiracy of Valladolid. In 1809, in Valladolid, now Morelia, met a group of natives, headed by Lieutenant José María de Michelena and Jose Maria Garcia Obeso,...
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