DonMiguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Gallaga Mandarte y Villaseñor[4] (8 May 1753 – 30 July 1811), commonly known asMiguel Hidalgo y Costilla or simplyMiguel Hidalgo (Spanish:[miˈɣeliˈðalɣo]), was a MexicanCatholic priest and prominent leader of theMexican War of Independence, who is recognized as theFather of the Nation.
A professor at theColegio de San Nicolás Obispo inValladolid, Hidalgo was influenced byEnlightenment ideas, which contributed to his ouster in 1792. He served in a church inColima and then inDolores. After his arrival, he was shocked by the rich soil he had found. He tried to help the poor by showing them how to grow olives and grapes, but inNew Spain (modern Mexico) growing these crops was discouraged or prohibited by colonial authorities to prevent competition with imports from Spain.[5] On 16 September 1810, he gave theCry of Dolores, a speech calling upon the people to protect the interest of KingFerdinand VII, held captive as part of thePeninsular War, by revolting against thepeninsulares who had overthrown ViceroyJosé de Iturrigaray.[6]
Hidalgo marched across Mexico and gathered an army of nearly 90,000 irregulars who attackedpeninsular andcriollo elites. Hidalgo's insurgent army accumulated initial victories on its way to Mexico City, but his troops ultimately lacked training and were poorly armed. These troops ran into an army of well-trained and armed Spanish troops in theBattle of Calderón Bridge and were defeated.[7] After the battle, Hidalgo and his remaining troops fled north, but Hidalgo was betrayed, captured and executed.
Corralejo, Pénjamo, Guanajuato, where Hidalgo was born
Hidalgo was the second-born child of Cristóbal Hidalgo y Costilla Espinoza de los Monteros and Ana María Gallaga Mandarte Villaseñor, bothcriollos.[8] On his maternal side, he was ofBasque ancestry. His most recent identifiable Spanish ancestor was his maternal great-grandfather, who was fromDurango, Biscay.[9] On his paternal side, he descended from criollo families native toTejupilco, which were well-respected within the criollo community.[10] Hidalgo's father was anhacienda manager inValladolid,Michoacán, where Hidalgo spent the majority of his life.[11][12] Eight days after his birth, Hidalgo was baptized into the Catholic faith in the parish church of Cuitzeo de los Naranjos.[13] Hidalgo's parents had three other sons; José Joaquín, Manuel Mariano, and José María,[8] before their mother died when Hildalgo was nine years old.[14] A half-brother named Mariano was born later.[15]
In 1759,Charles III ascended the Spanish throne; he soon sent out a visitor-general with the power to investigate and reform all parts of colonial government. During this period, Cristóbal was determined that Miguel and his younger brother Joaquín should both enter the priesthood and hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Being of significant means he paid for all of his sons to receive the best education the region had to offer. After receiving private instruction, likely from the priest of the neighboring parish, Hidalgo was ready for further education.[8]
He completed his preparatory education in 1770. After this, he went to theRoyal and Pontifical University of Mexico in Mexico City for further study, earning his degree in philosophy and theology in 1773.[16] His education for the priesthood was traditional, with subjects inLatin,rhetoric andlogic. Like many priests in Mexico, he studied indigenous languages,[19] such asNahuatl,Otomi, andPurépecha. He also studied Italian and French, which were not commonly studied in Mexico at this time.[18] He earned the nickname "El Zorro" ("The Fox") for his reputation for cleverness at school.[2][20] Hidalgo's study of French allowed him to read and study works ofthe Enlightenment current in Europe[3] but, at the same time, forbidden by the Catholic church in Mexico.[2]
Etching depicting Hidalgo's portrait, on a pamphlet celebrating Mexican independence
Hidalgo was ordained as a priest in 1778 when he was 25 years old.[18][20] From 1779 to 1792, he dedicated himself to teaching at the Colegio de San Nicolás Obispo in Valladolid (nowMorelia); it was "one of the most important educational centers of the viceroyalty."[21] He was a professor of Latin grammar and arts, as well as a theology professor. Beginning in 1787, he was named treasurer, vice-rector and secretary,[16] becoming dean of the school in 1790 when he was 39.[3][22] Asrector, Hidalgo continued studying theliberal ideas that were coming from France and other parts of Europe. Authorities ousted him in 1792 for revising traditional teaching methods there, but also for "irregular handling of some funds."[23] The Church sent him to work at the parishes ofColima andSan Felipe Torres Mochas until he became the parish priest in Dolores, Guanajuato,[18] succeeding his brother José Joaquín a few weeks after his death on 19 September 1802.[14]
Although Hidalgo had a traditional education for the priesthood, as an educator at the Colegio de San Nicolás he had innovated in teaching methods and curriculum. In his personal life, he did not advocate or live the way expected of 18th-century Mexican priests. Instead, his studies of Enlightenment-era ideas caused him to challenge traditional political and religious views. He questioned the absolute authority of the Spanish king and challenged numerous ideas presented by the Church, including the power of the popes,the virgin birth, and clericalcelibacy. As a secular cleric, he was not bound by a vow of poverty, so he, like many other secular priests, pursued business activities, including owning three haciendas;[24] but contrary to his vow of chastity, he formed liaisons with women. One was with Manuela Ramos Pichardo, with whom he had two children, as well as a child with Bibiana Lucero.[23] He later lived with a woman named María Manuela Herrera,[19] fathering two daughters out of wedlock with her, and later fathered three other children with a woman named Josefa Quintana.[25]
These actions resulted in his appearance before the Court of theInquisition, although the court did not find him guilty.[19] Hidalgo was an egalitarian. As parish priest in both San Felipe and Dolores, he opened his house to natives andmestizos as well as criollos.[20]
In 1807, France and Spain signed theTreaty of Fontainebleau to invadePortugal, an ally of theUnited Kingdom. The French troops that were supposed to go through Spain to Portugal remained in Spain and the Spanish people were upset by the presence of the French troops as a result of the numerous excesses that the French committed against the Spanish people, such as occupation of the territory, numerous looting, pillaging, murder of civilians, and the kidnappings ofKing Charles IV andPrince Ferdinand VII. Also,Napoleon forcedboth to abdicate and installed his brother,Joseph Bonaparte, as King of Spain. This triggered arevolt by Spanish troops first and, subsequently,an uprising in Madrid, This was followed by further revolts across Spain. In August 1808, a British army landed in Portugal. Britain and France then went to war against each other in Portugal and Spain. The war and instability in Spain affected Mexico and other parts ofNew Spain.
In 1803, aged 50, Hidalgo arrived in Dolores accompanied by his family that included a younger brother, a cousin, two half sisters, as well as María and their two children.[20] He obtained this parish in spite of his hearing before the Inquisition, which did not stop his secular practices.[19]
After Hidalgo settled in Dolores, he turned over most of the clerical duties to one of his vicars, Francisco Iglesias, and devoted himself almost exclusively to commerce, intellectual pursuits and humanitarian activities.[20] He spent much of his time studying literature, scientific works,grape cultivation, and the raising ofsilkworms.[2][26] He used the knowledge that he gained to promote economic activities for the poor and rural people in his area. He established factories to make bricks and pottery and trained indigenous people in the making of leather.[2][26] He promotedbeekeeping.[26] He was interested in promoting activities of commercial value to use the natural resources of the area to help the poor.[3] His goal was to make the indigenous and mestizos more self-reliant. However, these activities violatedmercantilist policies designed to protect agriculture and industry in Spain, and Hidalgo was ordered to stop them. These policies as well as exploitation of mixed racecastas fostered animosity in Hidalgo towards the Peninsular-born Spaniards in Mexico.[19]
In addition to restricting economic activities in New Spain, Spanish mercantile practices caused misery for native peoples. A drought in 1807–1808 caused a famine in the Dolores area, and rather than releasing stored grain to market, Spanish merchants blocked its release, speculating on price increases. Hidalgo lobbied against these practices but was not successful.[27]
Hidalgo kickstarted Mexico's battle for independence on September 16, 1810.[28] Hidalgo, like many in the movement, grew increasingly violent as resentment grew. Hidalgo quickly rose to prominence as a leader being a respected member of the community with his educated background. While Hidalgo did lead the rebellion independence was not the primary interest for him rather to support the well-being ofparishioners.[28] Hidalgo was able to temporarily unite multiple social groups under his rule against the Spanish monarchy.[28]
The Bell of Dolores was moved from the church toMexico's National Palace after Hidalgo's death and is rung each year on independence day by the president
As the rebellion grew the more Hidalgo threatened the Spanish Monarchy making Hidalgo act more cautiously. Fearing arrest,[19] Hidalgo ordered his brother Mauricio, as well asIgnacio Allende andMariano Abasolo, to go with a number of other armed men to make the sheriff release prison inmates in Dolores on the night of 15 September 1810, setting eighty free. On the morning of 16 September 1810, Hidalgo celebratedMass, which was attended by about 300 people, including hacienda owners, local politicians, and Spaniards. There he gave what is now known as theGrito de Dolores (Cry of Dolores),[26] calling the people of his parish to leave their homes and join with him in a rebellion against the current government, in the name of their King,Ferdinand VII.[2]
Hidalgo'sGrito did not condemn the notion of monarchy or criticize the current social order in detail, but his opposition to the events in Spain and the current viceregal government was clearly expressed in his reference to bad government. TheGrito also emphasized loyalty to the Catholic religion, a sentiment with which both Creoles and Peninsulares could sympathize.[19]
Hidalgo's army – from Celaya to Monte de las Cruces
Hidalgo was met with an outpouring of support. Intellectuals, liberal priests and many poor people followed Hidalgo with enthusiasm.[19] His movement was joined by mestizos and the indigenous in such numbers that the original motives of the Querétaro group were obscured.[2][29] Ignacio Allende, Hidalgo's main co-conspirator in Querétaro, remained more loyal to the Querétaro group's original, criollo centered objectives. However, Hidalgo's actions and the people's response meant he would lead and not Allende. Allende had acquired military training when New Spain established a colonial militia whereas Hidalgo had none. The insurgents who followed Hidalgo also had no military training, experience or equipment. Many of these people were poor who were angry after many years of hunger and oppression. Consequently, Hidalgo was the leader of undisciplined rebels.[2][19]
Hidalgo's leadership gave the insurgent movement a supernatural aspect. Many villagers that joined the insurgent army came to believe that Fernando VII himself commanded their loyalty to Hidalgo and the monarch was in New Spain personally directing the rebellion against the Viceroyalty. Historian Eric Van Young believes that such ideas gave the movement supernatural and religious legitimacy that went as far as messianic expectation.[30]
Map of Hidalgo's campaign
Hidalgo and Allende left Dolores with about 800 men, half of whom were on horseback.[16] They marched through theBajío area, throughAtotonilco, San Miguel el Grande (present-daySan Miguel de Allende), Chamucuero,Celaya,Salamanca,Irapuato andSilao, toGuanajuato. From Guanajuato, Hidalgo directed his troops toValladolid, Michoacán. They remained here for a while and eventually marched towards Mexico City.[31] From Valladolid, they marched through theState of Mexico, through the cities of Maravatio, Ixtlahuaca, Toluca coming as close to Mexico City as the Monte de las Cruces, between theValley of Toluca and theValley of Mexico.[26]
Through numbers, Hidalgo's army had some early victories.[2] Hidalgo first went through the economically important and densely populated province of Guanajuato.[32] One of the first stops was at the Sanctuary ofNuestra Señora de Guadalupe inAtotonilco, where Hidalgo affixed an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe to a lance to adopt it as his banner.[26] He inscribed the following slogans to his troops' flags:"Long live religion! Long live our most Holy Mother of Guadalupe! Long live America and death to bad government!"[33] For the insurgents as a whole, the Virgin represented an intense and highly localized religious sensibility, invoked more to identify allies rather than create ideological alliances or a sense of nationalism.[30]
Banner with the image ofthe Virgin of Guadalupe carried by Hidalgo and his insurgent militia. Liberal bishop-electManuel Abad y Queipo denounced the insurgents' use of her image as a sacrilege.
The extent and the intensity of the movement took colonial authorities by surprise.[32] San Miguel andCelaya were captured with little resistance. On 21 September 1810, Hidalgo was proclaimed general and supreme commander after arriving to Celaya. At this point, Hidalgo's army numbered about 5,000.[2][26] However, because of the lack of discipline, the insurgents soon fell into robbing, looting, ransacking towns and executing prisoners.[2] This caused friction between Allende and Hidalgo as early as the capture of San Miguel in late September 1810. When rioting ran through the city, Allende tried to break up violence by striking insurgents with the flat of his sword, which brought him a rebuke from Hidalgo.[20]
On28 September 1810, Hidalgo arrived at the city ofGuanajuato with rebels who were mostly armed with sticks, stones, and machetes. The town's peninsular and criollo populations took refuge in the fortifiedAlhóndiga de Granaditas commanded by Juan Antonio de Riaño.[26] The insurgents overwhelmed the defenses after two days and killed an estimated 400 – 600 people. Allende strongly protested these events and while Hidalgo agreed that they were heinous, he also stated that he understood the historical patterns that shaped such responses. The attacks prompted criollos and peninsulares to ally against the insurgents and caused Hidalgo to lose support from liberal criollos.[19]
El Doliente de Hidalgo flag, captured by the Spanish army in Zitácuaro, Michoacán, 2 January 1812.
From Guanajuato, Hidalgo set off for Valladolid on 10 October 1810 with 15,000 men.[18][26] When he arrived atAcámbaro, he was promoted togeneralissimo[34] and given the title of His Most Serene Highness, with power to legislate. With his new rank he had a blue uniform with aclerical collar and red lapels embroidered with silver and gold. His uniform also included a blackbaldric also embroidered with gold. There was also a large image of the Virgin of Guadalupe in gold on his chest.[26]
Hidalgo and his forces took Valladolid with little opposition on 17 October 1810.[18][26] There, Hidalgo issued proclamations against the peninsulares, whom he accused of arrogance and despotism, as well as enslaving those in the Americas for almost 300 years. Hidalgo argued that the objective of the war was "to send thegachupines back to the motherland", accusing their greed and tyranny as leading to the temporal and spiritual degradation of Mexicans.[35] Hidalgo forced the Bishop-elect of Michoacan,Manuel Abad y Queipo, to rescind theexcommunication order he had circulated against him on 24 September 1810.[26][36] Later, the Inquisition issued an excommunication edict on 13 October 1810 condemning Hidalgo as a seditionary,apostate, andheretic.[30]
The insurgents stayed in the city preparing to march to the capital of New Spain,Mexico City.[31] Thecanon of the cathedral met Hidalgo and made him promise that the atrocities of San Miguel, Celaya and Guanajuato would not be repeated in Valladolid. Wholesale destruction of the city was not repeated. However, Hidalgo was furious when he found the cathedral locked to him, which led him to jail Spaniards, replace city officials with his own and looting the city treasury before marching off toward Mexico City.[20] On 19 October, Hidalgo left Valladolid for Mexico City after taking[clarification needed] 400,000 pesos from the cathedral to pay expenses.[26]
Hidalgo and his troops left the state ofMichoacán and marched through the towns of Maravatio, Ixtlahuaca, and Toluca before stopping in the forested mountain area of Monte de las Cruces.[26][37] Here, insurgent forces engaged Torcuato Trujillo's royalist forces. Hidalgo's troops led the royalist troops to retreat, but the insurgents suffered heavy casualties, as they had when they engaged royalist soldiers in Guanajuato.[18][19][38]
Missive that gives the explanation to avoid the attack on Mexico City, 1753 – Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico, 1811
After theBattle of Monte de las Cruces on 30 October 1810, Hidalgo had some 100,000 insurgents and was in a strategic position to attack Mexico City.[2] Numerically, his forces outnumbered royalist forces.[19] The royalist government in Mexico City, under the leadership ofViceroyFrancisco Venegas, prepared psychological and military defenses. An intensive propaganda campaign had advertised insurgent violence in the Bajío region and stressed the insurgents' threat against social stability. Hidalgo's insurgency also faced opposition from sedentary natives and castes of the Valley of Mexico.[29]
Hidalgo's forces came as close as what is now theCuajimalpa borough of Mexico City.[16] Allende wanted to press forward and attack the capital, but Hidalgo disagreed.[26][37] Hidalgo's reasoning for this decision is unclear and has been debated by historians.[30][39] One explanation is that Hidalgo's forces were undisciplined and had suffered heavy losses whenever they encountered trained troops. As the capital was guarded by some of the most trained soldiers in New Spain,[19] Hidalgo decided to turn away from Mexico City and move to the north[39] through Toluca and Ixtlahuaca[31] with a destination ofGuadalajara.[19]
Image extracted from Vicente's book Riva Palacio, Julio Zárate (1880) "México a través de los siglos" ( Mexico through the centuries) Tomo III: "La guerra de independencia" (The war of independence) (1808–1821).
After turning back, many insurgents deserted. By the time he got to Aculco, just north of Toluca, his army had shrunk to 40,000 men. New Spain GeneralFelix Calleja attacked Hidalgo's forces, defeating them on 7 November 1810. Allende decided to take the troops under his command to Guanajuato, instead of Guadalajara.[37] Hidalgo arrived in Guadalajara on 26 November with more than 7,000 poorly armed troops.[26] He initially occupied the city with lower-class support because Hidalgo promised toend slavery, tribute payment and taxes on alcohol and tobacco.[19]
Hidalgo established an alternative government in Guadalajara with himself at the head and appointed two ministers.[26] On 6 December 1810, Hidalgo issued a decree abolishing slavery, threatening those who did not comply with death. He abolished tribute payments that indigenous peoples had to pay to criollo and peninsular lords. He ordered the publication of a newspaper calledDespertador Americano (American Wake Up Call).[37] He named Pascacio Ortiz de Letona as representative of the insurgent government and sent him to the United States to seek support, but Ortiz de Letona was apprehended by the Spanish army and executed.[2]
During this time, insurgent violence mounted inGuadalajara. Citizens loyal to the viceregal government were seized and executed. While indiscriminate looting was avoided, insurgents targeted properties of criollos and Spaniards, regardless of political affiliation.[19][26] In the meantime, the royalist army had retaken Guanajuato, forcing Allende to flee to Guadalajara.[37] After he arrived at the city, Allende again objected to Hidalgo concerning the insurgent violence. However, Hidalgo knew the royalist army was on its way to Guadalajara and wanted to stay on good terms with his own army.[26]
After Guanajuato had been retaken by royalist forces, Bishop Manuel Abad y Queipo excommunicated Hidalgo and those following or helping him on 24 December 1810. Abad y Queipo had formerly been a friend of Hidalgo, but he was adamantly opposed to Hidalgo's tactics and the resultant disruptions, alleged "sacrileges" and purported ill-treatment of priests. The Inquisition pronounced an edict against Hidalgo, charging him with denying that God punishes sins in this world, doubting the authenticity of the Bible, denouncing the popes and Church government, allowing Jews not to convert to Christianity, denying the perpetual virginity of Mary, preaching that there was no hell, and adoptingLutheran doctrine with regard to theEucharist. Hidalgo responded that he had never departed from Church doctrine in the slightest degree.[26]
Royalist forces marched to Guadalajara, arriving in January 1811 with nearly 6,000 men.[19] Allende and Abasolo wanted to concentrate their forces in the city and plan an escape route should they be defeated, but Hidalgo rejected this, deciding to make a stand at theCalderón Bridge (Puente de Calderón) just outside the city. Hidalgo had between 80,000 and 100,000 men and 95 cannons, but the better trained royalists decisively defeated the insurgent army, forcing Hidalgo to flee towards Aguascalientes.[19][26] At Hacienda de Pabellón, on 25 January 1811, near the city ofAguascalientes, Allende and other insurgent leaders took military command away from Hidalgo, blaming him for their defeats.[26] Hidalgo remained as head politically but with military command going to Allende.[37]
The insurgent Army[40] moved north towardsZacatecas andSaltillo with the goal of making connections in the United States for support.[18][25] Hidalgo reached Saltillo, where he publicly resigned his military post and rejected a pardon offered by General José de la Cruz in the name of Venegas in return for Hidalgo's surrender.[16] A short time later, they were betrayed and captured by royalistIgnacio Elizondo at theWells of Baján[40] (Norias de Baján) on 21 March 1811 and taken toChihuahua.[2][26][37]
State of Durango's prison where Hidalgo was imprisoned in his capture in 1811
Hidalgo was turned over to Durango, where Bishop Francisco Gabriel de Olivares had him officiallydefrocked and excommunicated on 27 July 1811. He was subsequently declared guilty of treason by a military court. He was tortured through theflaying 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 is that he was killed byfiring squad in the morning of 30 July.[26][41] Before his execution, he thanked his jailers, two soldiers, Ortega and Melchor, for their humane treatment. At his execution, Hidalgostated "Though I may die, I shall be remembered forever; you all will soon be forgotten."[25][42] His body and the bodies of Allende, Aldama andJosé Mariano Jiménez were decapitated, and the heads were put on display in the four corners of theAlhóndiga de Granaditas inGuanajuato.[2] The heads remained there for ten years until the end of theMexican War of Independence to demoralize insurgents.[19] Hidalgo's headless body was first displayed outside the prison and then buried in theChurch of St Francis inChihuahua. The remains were transferred to Mexico City in 1824.[25]
Hidalgo's death resulted in a political vacuum on the insurgent side until 1812. The royalist military commander, GeneralFélix Calleja, continued to pursue rebel troops. Insurgent fighting evolved intoguerrilla warfare,[30] and eventually the next major insurgent leader,José María Morelos Pérez y Pavón, who had led rebel movements with Hidalgo, became head of the insurgents, until Morelos himself was captured and executed in 1815.[19]
"Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla had the unique distinction of being a father in three senses of the word: a priestly father in the Roman Catholic Church, a biological father who produced illegitimate children in violation of his clerical vows, and the father of his country."[43] He has been hailed as theFather of the Nation[2] even though it wasAgustín de Iturbide and not Hidalgo who became the firsthead of state of Mexico in 1821.[39] Shortly after gaining independence, the day to celebrate it varied between 16 September, the day of Hidalgo's Grito de Dolores, and 27 September, when Iturbide's forces captured Mexico City, ending the war.[38]
Later, political movements would favor the more liberal Hidalgo over the conservative Iturbide, and 16 September 1810 became officially recognized as the day of Mexican independence.[39] The reason for this is that Hidalgo is considered to be "precursor and creator of the rest of the heroes of the (Mexican War of) Independence."[26]
Mural of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Diego Rivera painted Hidalgo's image in half a dozen murals.José Clemente Orozco depicted him with a flaming torch of liberty and considered the painting among his best work.David Alfaro Siqueiros was commissioned by San Nicolas McGinty University in Morelia to paint a mural for a celebration commemorating the 200th anniversary of Hidalgo's birth.[44] The town of his parish was renamed Dolores Hidalgo in his honor and the state ofHidalgo was created in 1869.[38] Every year on the night of 15–16 September, the president of Mexico re-enacts the Grito from the balcony of theNational Palace. This scene is repeated by the heads of cities and towns all over Mexico.[30] He is also the namesake ofHidalgo County, Texas, in the United States.[45]
The remains of Hidalgo lie in the column of theAngel of Independence in Mexico City. Next to it is a lamp lit to represent the sacrifice of those who gave their lives for Mexican Independence.[25][42]
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