Homework due tomorrow Thursday 24. Student: Rodrigo Davila, Carlos Escamilla and Fernando Montes. Task Directions: note the following correction item after your examination complete.
THE LAST DAYS OF MIGUEL HIDALGO Y COSTILLA .
Hidalgo in his military trial is enlarged before his judges. Do not evade his responsibility or try to save life, courageous corresponding the reply given to Allende when he was invited to participate in the independence movement: "... the authors of such companies has not [n] the fruit of them .." That is, agreed, shortly after becoming the principal leader of the armed movement aware of the danger involved. Corridos and all the risks and in full retreat toward the north, in Saltillo, Hidalgo and Allende rejected on 1 March 1811, twenty days before his capture, the pardon offered the Viceroy Venegas.
The military judge, Angel Abella, gathered all the evidence presented to him to prove the guilt of Hidalgo. Thus, both the questions "allegations concerning fidelity to the king and country, such as those relating to obedience to church authorities and their performance as a priest, were designed to find clear evidence to make his conviction final. Hidalgo and Allende declared that he "... Don N. dispatched Latvian [Pascacio Ortiz de Letona], a native of Guatemala to the United States to seek their alliance and offering to exchange weapons ...", the advantages of free trade. There was no defense: it was treason to the king and country. And also declared that if he learned that "the Holy Tribunal of the faith ..." summoned him to appear to be head of the insurgency "to answer charges of heresy because you were slope [begun in 1800] in the court ", but that did not come" ... not for the crimes of heresy that he was accused, but by the party that was committed ... "In that trial it was blatant disrespect authority. The avalanche of objections made Hidalgo was found guilty and sentenced to death, and consequently, its degradation priest was consummated on June 29, 1811 by "doctoral Holy Church of Durango, Francisco Fernandez Valentin. In respective certification reads:
was asked: - What reason had to rebel against king and country? "He replied that he had explained the reasons the military judge, did not answer more, and that supposedly was going to die, only charge that he was not cut off his head as the sentence had been read, no more crime to have wanted to make this America independent of Spain. After degradation, and stripped of the vestments, with the ceremony that sends the Holy Church, was searched and found him in the chest filled with sweat, the sovereign image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, which is embroidered on silk scroll , which when removed from his chest said, "This lady, Mother of God, has been the shield that I carried in my flag, marching in front of my army, in the days of Aculco and Guanajuato, and my will be carried the convent where Therese of Querétaro was made by the venerable mothers, who gave it to me in my holy in 1807. No more talk, proceeding to act touching, tearing the priestly garments, using the formidable curse of the holy Church, and to be delivered to the military judge and execute the sentence.
In Chihuahua, the seven mañana35 of July 30, 1811, fell to the firing squad the illustrious priest Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla. He was then 58 years old. The soldier responsible for the execution, Pedro Armendáriz, noted the heavy during the last moments of the leader:
... Came [Hidalgo] to bench, a priest gave the book [he had in his right hand], and without saying a word, sat alone in such a place, which was tied with two slings [...] and with a band of eyes from the pole, taking the crucifix in both hands, and face the front of the troops [...] According to what I warned him fire the first row, three of the bullets were in the womb, and another in an arm broke, the pain did twist a little body, so the band broke away from the head and stabbed us those beautiful eyes she had. In this state I download the second row, which gave all in the womb, being forewarned that goes to the heart. Did little extreme, only if it tears rolled too thick. Still held without even detract at all that beautiful view, so he fired the third row err again taking no more fruit than having shattered his stomach and back, perhaps because the soldiers would be shaking like a quicksilver. In this case so tight and pitiful, I had two soldiers being shot by placing the mouth of the cannon on the heart, and went with what was accomplished in order. Then he took to the plaza in front of the hospital, put on a table to the right of the entrance to the main door and a chair in her sitting him, for him to see the quasi-public [almost] as general cry, Although sipping tears. Then he got inside, they cut off the head that salted, and the body was buried in the cemetery.
Thus ended the life of Don Miguel Hidalgo, the Father of the Nation. The pedestal of heroism is basement and the answer he gave to the viceroy Venegas Allende when offered the pardon: pardon, Lord, Your Honor, is for criminals, not the defenders of the homeland ... Indications
