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The Independence of Mexico was the result of a political and social process solved by means of arms, which ended the Spanish rule in the territories of New Spain. The war forindependence lasted from Mexican Grito de Dolores, the September 16, 1810, to the entrance of the Army Trigarante to Mexico City, on September 27, 1821.
The Mexican independencemovement is under the Enlightenment and the liberal revolutions of the late eighteenth century. By that time the educated elite began to reflect on the relations between Spain and itscolonies. Changes in the social and political structure derived from the Bourbon reforms, to which was added a deep economic crisis in New Spain, also generated unease among somesegments of the population.
The French occupation of the metropolis in 1808 in New Spain triggered a political crisis that led to the armed movement. In that year, King Carlos IVand Fernando VII abdicated on for Napoleon Bonaparte, who left the crown of Spain to his brother Joseph Bonaparte. In response, the City of Mexico, with support from Viceroy José deIturrigaray-claimed sovereignty in the absence of the legitimate king, the reaction led to a coup against the viceroy and led to jail the leaders of the movement.
Despite thedefeat of the natives in Mexico City in 1808, in other cities in New Spain gathered small groups of conspirators who tried to follow the steps of the City of Mexico. Such was the caseof the plot of Valladolid, discovered in 1809 and whose participants were imprisoned. In 1810, the conspirators of Querétaro were nearly the same fate but, to be discovered, choseto take up arms on September 16 in the company of peasants and indigenous inhabitants of the town of Dolores (Guanajuato), convened by the priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.