Mexican War of Independence

Mexican War of Independence
Part of Spanish American wars of independence
Date September 16th, 1810 - May 5th, 1821 Location Viceroyalty of New Spain or Mexico Result First Mexican Empire gains independence from Spain
Belligerents
Patriots Mexicans Insurgents Europeans and volunteers after 1819 Mexican ex-royalists Army of the Three Guarantees	Royalists Spaniard royalists before 1821 Mexican royalists
Commanders and leaders
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla † José María Morelos † Francisco Javier Mina † Vicente Guerrero Agustín I Mariano Matamoros † Ignacio López Rayón José Sixto Verduzco	Francisco Javier Venegas Ignacio Elizondo † Juan Ruiz de Apodaca Félix María Calleja del Rey Francisco Novella Juan O'Donojú Ferdinand VII
Strength
100.000 irregular 23.000 regular	17.000
Casualties and losses
250,000	1.000 killed

The Mexican War of Independence (1810–1821) was a war between the people of Mexico and the Spanish colonial government. It started on the 16th of September 1810 since Mexican-born Spaniards (criollo people), Mestizos and Amerindians wanted their independence from Spain.

The idea of Mexican independence went back to the years after the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. Martín Cortés led a revolt against the Spanish government.^[1]

After the Conspiracy of the Machetes failed in 1799, the War of Independence really started with the Grito de Dolores in 1810. Spain was busy fighting for its independence against the invading First French Empire during the Peninsular War and most of Latin America revolted.

1. ↑ John Charles Chasteen. Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America. New York, Norton, 2001. ISBN 978-0-393-97613-7