The revolt was very destructive and Hidalgo marched on with 80,000 men to Mexico City. Then in 1811 after retreating from Mexico City the Spanish defeated him and Hidalgo was captured and executed. ... In the Caribbean there were three Spanish Colonies, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico and Cuba. ...
The Aztecs According to their first records, the Aztecs, or Mexica, originally lived to the north of the Valley of Mexico, partially under the control of the Toltec empire.[1] Driven to leave by the pressure of their Toltec oppressors, who demanded huge tributes from the farming Aztecs, the Aztecs fled from their home city of Aztlan. ... On one of these islands the Aztecs founded the sacred city of Tenochtitlan and immediately built an altar to their patron god, Huitzilopochtli, God of War. As the city grew, a splinter group broke off and settled on a neighboring island, founding the city o...
The United States has always prided itself as the "Great Bastion of Democracy". However, the history of the US in Latin America is much more ambiguous than the vision of a great nation freeing Latin Americans from dictatorship and sowing the seeds of liberty and democracy; instead, the US has all to...