How did it all start? With Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a priest in the tiny provincial town of Dolores, Guanajuato. In the early-morning hours of Sept. 16, 1810, he rang the bells of his ...

The popular but unconventional priest Miguel Hidalgo issued the call in 1810 from the steps of the town’s stately church. We are offered a special tour by one of Father Hidalgo’s descendants.

Mexico’s independence day actually marks the moment in 1810 when Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a Catholic priest known as Father Hidalgo, made the first cry for independence. After a moving speech ...

The “El Grito” celebration pays homage to the rallying cry for independence made by Father Miguel Hidalgo in 1810. It was a call to the Mexican people to rise up against the Spaniards after 3 ...

it extended from the Grito de Dolores by Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla on September 16, 1810, to the entrance of the Army of the Three Guarantees led by Agustín de Iturbide to Mexico City on ...

It all started in the little town of Dolores, Mexico, on Sept. 15, 1810, when Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang the church bells and gave a call to arms that started the Mexican War of ...

Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla is considered the father of Mexican independence ... After several members were arrested by Spaniards in September 1810, Hidalgo rallied the townspeople to fight back ...

Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla is considered the father of Mexican independence ... After several members were arrested by Spaniards in September of 1810, Hidalgo rallied the townspeople to fight ...