EMERGENCE OF USA
HOW DID THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION INFLUENCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Mexico easily and quickly won independence.
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Father Hidalgo was killed and Jose Morelos took his place in the fight for independence.
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Mexico lost its fight.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla-“the father of Mexican independence ”-launched the Mexican rebellion with his “Cry of Dolores, ” and his populist army came close to capturing the Mexican capital. Defeated at Calderón in January 1811, he fled north but was captured and executed.
Detailed explanation-2: -The rebellion faltered at the city gates, and many of Hidalgo’s followers abandoned him. After a crushing defeat at the Battle of Calderón Bridge on January 17, 1811, Hidalgo fled north, hoping to escape into the United States. He was caught on March 21 and executed by a firing squad on July 30, 1811, at age 58.
Detailed explanation-3: -He was tortured through the flaying of his hands, symbolically removing the chrism placed upon them at his priestly ordination and executed. There are many theories about how he was killed, the most popular that he was killed by firing squad in the morning of 30 July.
Detailed explanation-4: -Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla is generally regarded as the “Father of Mexican Independence.” He was born in a rural area of Guanajuato where his father managed a hacienda. He was an excellent student in both theology and philosophy at the then Colegio de San Nicolás Obispo in present-day Morelia.