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Mexico’s women fought alongside their men in all the wars Mexico had experienced at the end of a 30-year dictatorship that included the Mexican Revolution of 1810-1820, the invasion by the U.S ...
The Mexican Revolution achieved the foundations of a modern Mexico. The episode examines the roles of assassinatedrevolutionaries Pancho Villa, Emiliano Zapata, ...
The holiday actually commemorates the Mexican army’s ... which is celebrated annually on Sept. 16 after the country claimed its independence from Spain in 1810. ... After the Texas Revolution, ...
By 1810, Mexico and most of Latin America was in chaos following Napoleon’s occupation of Spain. That year, Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla sparked a rebellion of the lower classes in Mexico ...
While much has been written about the U.S.-Mexican War, the event that started it all, the 1810 revolution, has largely been viewed as a footnote. As a historian, ...
Digital illustration of young Sonia as “Adelita” by Adolfo (Ben) Ruiz My wife, Sonia Ruiz, reminds me of the women in the Mexican Revolutionary song “Adelita” who wore “bandoliers across ...