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Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla was a Mexican Catholic priest who began the war of independence against Spain. On 16 September 1810, in the town of Dolores, he called on his parishioners to rise, an event known as the Grito de Dolores. His mass army of peasants and Indigenous people took Guanajuato but was defeated at the Bridge of Calderón in 1811; he was captured and executed. He is honoured as the father of Mexican independence.
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