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| Ejército Revolucionario de México; Revolutionary Army of Mexico | |
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| Delta Force | Jun 17 2009, 12:25 AM Post #1 |
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Mexico General Information Gross Domestic Product: £55,500,000 (1.60%) Revenues and Taxes: £20,000 Industrial Production Points: 0.5 IPP National Debt: £0 Credit Rating: 6.0% Current Leadership: Guadalupe Victoria, Vicente Guerrero, Francisco Javier Mina Capital: N/A Government: N/A Population: 6,100,000 (0.5%) Start of Revolution: September 16, 1810 Brief History of the Area Colonial Era The Spanish defeat of the Aztecs in 1521 marked the beginning of the 300 year-long colonial period called the New Spain. After the fall of Tenochtitlan, it would take decades of sporadic warfare to pacify the rest of Mesoamerica. Particularly fierce was the Chichimeca War in the north of the New Spain (1576-1606). The Council of Indies and the Mendecant establishments that arose in Mesoamerica as early as 1524 labored to generate capital for the broken crown of Spain and convert the Indian populations to Catholicism. Over the period of conquest (1519-c1600s) and the following Colonial periods the sponsorship of Mendecant friars and a process of religious syncretism combined the Pre-Hispanic cultures with Spanish socio-religious tradition. The resulting hodgepodge of culture was a pluriethnic State that relied on the repartimiento of peasant "Republic of Indians" labor to accomplish any work considered necessary. The existing feudal system of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican culture was replaced by the encomienda feudal-style system of Spain, probably adapted to the pre-Hispanic tradition. It was finally replaced by a debt-based inscription of labor that led to wide-spread revitalization movements and prompted the revolution that ended the colonial state of New Spain. During the colonial period, which lasted from 1521 to 1810, Mexico was known as "la Nueva España" or "New Spain" (as aforementioned), whose territories included today's Mexico. ("Mexico" in this period only meant the area that is the Valley of Mexico.) This entity was part of an eponymous viceroyalty, which joined with it the Spanish Caribbean islands, Central America as far south as Costa Rica, the area comprising today's southwestern United States, and the Philippines. Since Spaniards conquered areas with high civilizations and dense populations, which could provide the settlers with a sufficient labor source and a population to catechize, Spaniards in the sixteenth century tended not to develop the territories that had nomadic peoples, which were harder to conquer (and in fact, with the exception of the Amazon Basin, were not subdued until the nineteenth century). The Spanish did explore a good part of North America looking for more treasure-laden societies. These explorers claimed the land as was their practice, but finding no treasures or sedentary Indian tribes, they returned to the areas in Mexico, which had already been conquered. It was in the seventeenth century that a concerted effort was made to settle the northern frontier. War of Independence The Mexican War of Independence is an armed conflict between the people of Mexico and the Spanish colonial authorities which started on 16 September 1810. The Mexican War of Independence movement was led by Mexican-born Spaniards, Mestizos and Amerindians who sought independence from Spain. It started as an idealistic peasants' rebellion against their colonial masters, but finally ended as an unlikely alliance between liberals and conservatives. It can be said that the struggle for Mexican independence dates back to the decades after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, when Martín Cortés, son of Hernán Cortés and La Malinche, led a revolt against the Spanish colonial government in order to eliminate the issues of oppression and privileges for the conquistadors. After the abortive Conspiracy of the Machetes in 1799, the War of Independence led by the Mexican-born Spaniards became a reality. The movement for independence was far from gaining unanimous support among Mexicans, who became divided between independentists, autonomists and loyalists. After the conspiracy was betrayed by a supporter, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla declared war against the colonial government on the late night of 15 September 1810, in what has become known as the Grito de Dolores. On the dawn of 16 September, the revolutionary army decided to strike for independence and marched on to Guanajuato, a major colonial mining centre governed by Spaniards and criollos. There the leading citizens barricaded themselves in the granary. The rebel army captured the granary on 28 September, and most of the Spaniards and criollos were massacred or exiled. On 30 October 1810, Hidalgo's army encountered Spanish resistance at the Battle of Monte de las Cruces, fought them and achieved victory. However, the rebel army failed to defeat the large and heavily armed Spanish army in Mexico City. Rebel survivors of the battle sought refuge in nearby provinces and villages. The insurgent forces planned a defensive strategy at a bridge on the Calderón River, pursued by the Spanish army. In January 1811, Spanish forces fought the Battle of the Bridge of Calderón and defeated the insurgent army, forcing the rebels to flee towards the United States-Mexican border, where they hoped to escape. However they were intercepted by the Spanish army and Hidalgo and his remaining soldiers were captured in the state of Jalisco, in the region known as "Los Altos". He faced court trial of the Inquisition and found guilty of treason. He was executed by firing squad in Chihuahua, on 30 July 1811. His body was mutilated, and his head was displayed in Guanajuato as a warning to Mexican rebels. Following the death of Father Hidalgo, the leadership of the revolutionary army was assumed by José María Morelos. Under his leadership the cities of Oaxaca and Acapulco were occupied. In 1813, the Congress of Chilpancingo was convened and on 6 November of that year, the Congress signed the first official document of independence, known as the "Solemn Act of the Declaration of Independence of Northern America. It was followed by a long period of war at the Siege of Cuautla. In 1815, Morelos was captured by Spanish colonial authorities, tried and executed for treason in San Cristóbal Ecatepec on 22 December. By 1815 the Independence War had become a guerrilla war, led by three caudillos: Guadelupe Victoria in Puebla, Vicente Guerrero in Oaxaca and the liberal Spaniard Francisco Javier Mina in the center. |
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| Delta Force | Jun 17 2009, 12:26 AM Post #2 |
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Ejército Revolucionario de México Army Information: Ejército Revolucionario de México (militia): 4,000 infantrymen, 4,000 calvary, 300 artillerists, 30 cannons Total Annual Upkeep: £0 1st Brigade Leader: Vicente Guerrero Location: Oaxaca *1st Battalion: 1,000 infantry (militia) *2nd Battalion: 1,000 infantry (militia) *3rd Battalion: 1,000 calvary (militia) 2nd Brigade Leader: Francisco Javier Mina Location: Querétaro *1st Battalion: 1,000 infantry (militia) *2nd Battalion: 1,000 calvary (militia) *3rd Battalion: 1,000 calvary (militia) *4th Battalion: 1,000 calvary (militia) *5th Battalion: 20 guns, 200 artillerists (militia) 3rd Brigade Leader: Guadelupe Victoria Location: Veracruz (garrison) *1st Battalion: 1,000 infantry (militia) *2nd Battalion: 10 guns, 100 artillerists (militia) |
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