On November 8th 1519, Don Hernando Cortes and six hundred Spaniards entered the city of Mexico. In Xoloco, Motecuhzoma’s originally thought that these spanish men were prince Quetzalcoatl and other gods. Yet they were far from gods. They were not there to answer all their prayers and hopes but were there to take over the Aztec Capital. On August 13, 1521, the Aztec capital surrendered to Cortes.
Morelos was executed as Hidalgo. In 1921 the Spanish were forced to leave Mexico and after 11 years fighting, the Mexicans won their freedom. The first Mexican government was another bad man because he was like the one that was in the power before the Independence. He was Agustin Iturbide, but then he was changed because he also had unfair rules. Then a Republic was created so now the Mexicans could choose their governments.
Juárez was arrested and when he was released from prison he went to Guanajuato, made himself president and declared war. Juárez and Zuloaga fought over the role of religion for awhile before the U.S. eventually intervened and sided with Juárez. The war was now in the favor of the liberals and when the war ended in 1861, Juárez returned to Mexico City as president on January 1. Mexico still owed large debts to Britain, Spain, and France and in late 1861 the three nations united and went to Mexico to collect. Complications in negotiations convinced the British and Spanish to leave but the French stayed.
The Aztec’s were still angry with the Spanish and were planning on killing them all. By letting them back into the city the Spanish horses and weapons would be less effective. The Aztec’s were then able force in the Palace walls and the Spanish began to fear what was to happen next for they knew that the Aztec’s wanted them all dead. (Burkholder and Johnson p. 58) According to Díaz’s manuscript, the Spanish wanted to declare peace with the Aztec’s so that they could leave Mexico. In order to do this, they needed Montezuma to tell his people to cease the war.
Consequently, the Aristocracy decided to fix the disconformities in the citizens of Quito and arranged a meeting were the representatives wrote a document to Ruiz de Castilla, who was the president of the Real Audiencia de Quito, telling him that his dismiss of his charge, that there´s going to be changes in the government and that is set an official revolution. People in Quito were never satisfied with the way that Castilla managed them, and with the Spanish monarchy falling more and more in popularity, there was no hesitation in taking him the power away. In that day, officially was the first proclamation of independence of the entire Latin
After this war, Spain assured improvements, but the nationalists did not believe they would cooperate. In 1895 when another rebellion led by Cuban nationalists took action, the Spaniards sent about 200,000 soldiers to Cuba. The Cubans reacted by damaging any property that belonged to Spain such as the sugar mills and fields hoping this would make the Spaniards retrieve their land or so the U.S can intervene in this disaster. A year later, Spain sent General Weyler to put down those nationalists in Cuba. He decided to build concentration camps and
To avoid internal conflicts after his death Franco appointed Juan Carlos as his successor. To get ready for his upcoming role as king of Spain, Juan Carlos made international visits to countries around the world. Franco died on November 30, 1975. Juan Carlos immediately proclaimed himself king of Spain and started to restore Spain back to a democracy. Soon after the national change to democracy there was an attempted coup by pro-Franco military officers who stormed into parliament.
8 hours: British ran out of ammunition. Spanish guns couldn’t really fire back. 4pm – last British shot. 600+ Spanish died. Severe damage to Spanish ships.
These are all reasons that the U.S had no business starting a war with Mexico for territory that was legally theirs. In 1845 the U.S annexed Texas. When the Mexican government found out about the treaty signed between the U.S and Texas they considered it “a declaration of war”, Jesus Velasco-Marquez wrote in the Voices of Mexico. Most Mexicans thought that the act of annexing Texas was robbery. There was no legal document that stated that Texas stopped being part of Mexico.
Along with the goal of removing Napoleon from Portugal, Brazil’s only set goal politically was to become independent. Because of Napoleon’s invasion of Spain starting in 1808, Mexico and other colonies started to become very passionate about having a revolution. On September 16, 1810, respected priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla issued the “Grito de Dolores” or Cry of Dolores which surmounted to Mexico declaring war against the Spanish government in the colonies. The ultimate goal was to be free from Spanish rule and have an independent government. Hidalgo sparked a bloody ten year war that ended over 300 years of colonial rule, thus achieving the initial intent (history.com The Struggle for Mexican Independence).