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Origins of Mexican Independence Part 3: Breaking Away

By Damian Bacich

With a foreign occupier in control of Spain, and the royal family in exile in France, people in the Spanish territories in the Americas found themselves at a crossroads.

Filed Under: Mexican War for Independence Tagged With: Agustín Iturbide, Californios, Hipólito Bouchard, Juana Machado, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Plan of Iguala, Virgin of Guadalupe

Beyond Clichés

By Damian Bacich

  Recently I began recording a series of interviews for a new podcast I will be launching as part of California Frontier. For one of the first interviews, I had the pleasure of visiting Greg Bernal Smestad. Greg has made it his mission to preserve and maintain the heritage his ancestors, who came to California […]

Filed Under: European Settlements, Spanish Exploration and Colonization Tagged With: Anza, Californios, Virgin of Guadalupe

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