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La Marquesa National Park, with the official name Parque Nacional Insurgente Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, is a National park in the State of Mexico, in central Mexico. It commemorates the battlefield site of the 1810 Battle of Monte de las Cruces , one of the pivotal battles of the early Mexican War of Independence in New Spain .
A statue of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla is installed in front of the Legislative Palace of Guadalajara, in the Mexican state of Jalisco. Hidalgo y Costilla is depicted enraged, breaking chains of slavery and urging for freedom. [1] The bronze statue is 4 meters (13 ft) tall and was designed by Ignacio Díaz Morales. [1]
Don Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla Gallaga Mandarte y Villaseñor [4] (8 May 1753 – 30 July 1811), commonly known as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla or simply Miguel Hidalgo (Spanish pronunciation: [miˈɣel iˈðalɣo]), was a Catholic priest, leader of the Mexican War of Independence, and is recognized as the Father of the Nation.
Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla - In 1753 was born in this city, in the Estate of Corralejo Liberating of Mexico, The Father of the Motherland. Son of Ana Maria Gallaga and Cristobal Hidalgo, which contracted nuptials in the Principal Parish of City of Pénjamo, Gto. dedicated to Asis's San Francisco.
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla. On March 17, 1811, Generals Allende, Jiménez, and Aldama, Padre Hidalgo, and more than 1,000 soldiers of the rebel army departed Saltillo to march north to Monclova. The caravan was strung out on the road over a distance of 24 kilometres (15 miles).
El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (English: The Royal Road of the Interior Land), also known as the Silver Route, [1] was a Spanish 2,560-kilometre-long (1,590 mi) road between Mexico City and San Juan Pueblo (Ohkay Owingeh), New Mexico (in the modern U.S.), that was used from 1598 to 1882.
Hidalgo County, New Mexico (after Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo, where the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed) Hidalgo County, Texas (after Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican national hero) Huerfano County, Colorado (named for the Huerfano Butte, a local landmark. From the Spanish huérfano, meaning orphan)
Duval County's development began during the Viceroyalty of New Spain (1521–1821). In 1804, six years before Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla launched Mexico's successful independence movement from Spain, Jose Faustino Contreras, surveyor general of San Luis Potosi, charted the county's landscape, which attracted colonists from Mier, Tamaulipas.