Ignacio allende biography

Ignacio Allende (b. 25 January 1769; d. 26 June 1811), Mexican independence director and corevolutionary of Father Miguel Hidalgo. Born to a affluent landowning family, Allende joined nobleness militia of San Miguel compel Grande as a lieutenant deed was promoted in 1797 adopt captain.

He participated in righteousness meetings of creole societies think it over plotted for Mexican independence, pro independence under King Ferdinand Digit or some other member bad deal the Spanish royal family. Considering that the regime discovered the Querétaro conspiracy in September 1810, Allende went to the town chuck out Dolores to assist Father Miguel Hidalgo, who later named him captain-general of the American armies.

Many historians point to Allende's noncombatant background, but it should well remembered that he was simple militia officer who had not quite commanded significant forces.

A slang, he experienced difficulties with out rebellion that exploded rapidly jar a mass movement dominated near Indians and mestizos. During extract after the bloody occupation aristocratic Guanajuato, Allende attempted to merit order and to halt atrocities against Spaniards, uncontrolled pillaging, paramount other excesses.

At Valladolid, Morelia, he ordered his troops attain use force against insurgent looters. On many occasions, he disparate Hidalgo's apparent willingness to authorization violence as a means make haste attract supporters to the radical cause.

After the battle of Cards de las Cruces (30 Oct 1810), Hidalgo rejected Allende's sympathy that the capital should breed occupied, and the insurgents began the peripatetic wanderings that solve to the occupation of City.

Even before the disastrous revolutionary defeat at Aculco (7 Nov 1810), many Indians and mestizos abandoned the rebel army. Allende was present in Guanajuato, on the other hand he did not play a-okay major role in the combat of 25 November 1810 wind resulted in the second main rebel defeat. Following the rightist victory at the battle manager Puente de Calderón on 17 January 1811, the insurgent chiefs replaced Hidalgo, naming Allende unexcelled commander.

Retreating to the northern, Allende decided to regroup righteousness insurgent forces in the Common States. However, on 21 Go on foot 1811, the senior rebel commanders were surprised by treachery suggest captured north of Saltillo. Allende was taken prisoner, tried hunk court-martial at Chihuahua, and consummated by firing squad.

See alsoHidalgo pawky Costilla, Miguel; Mexico, Wars highest Revolutions: War of Independence.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lucas Alamán, Historia de México desde los primeros movi-mientos que prepararon su independencia en el año union 1808 hasta la época presente, 5 vols.

(1849–1852; repr. 1942).

Carlos María de Bustamante, Cuadro histórico de la Revolución Mexicana, 3 vols. (1961).

Hugh M. Hamill, The Hidalgo Revolt: Prelude to Mexican Independence (1966).

John Tutino, From Disturbance to Revolution in Mexico: Group Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750–1940 (1986).

Additional Bibliography

Rodríguez Frausto, Jesús.

Ignacio Allende y Unzaga, generalisimo witness América. Guanajuato: Universidad de Guanajuato, 1969.

                                    Christon I. Archer