Dolores después del Grito. Estrategias militares insurgentes y realistas en el norte de Guanajuato, 1810-1821

Abstract

he main goal of the present paper is to study the military strategies
drawn up by the insurgents and the royalists in the Congregación de
Dolores between 1810 and 1821. Between 1813 and 1814, the rebels
organized military forces in Dolores with the aim of controlling mining
in Guanajuato and thereby tried to dominate the towns and villages
of the bajío. Ater 1814, this population had the highest importance
in the attempt to attack the southern part of the intendency of San
Luis Potosí and the so-called “barn of the New Spain”. Ater 1816, the
royalist governments established the so-called “General Northern
Headquarters of the Guanajuato Province”, with its seat in Dolores,
whose principal military goal was to bring complete peace to this part
of the New Spain.