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Historical person
1753–1811
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla was a Mexican priest whose 1810 call to revolt, remembered as the Grito de Dolores, began the Mexican War of Independence. He led a mass insurgent movement through central Mexico before defeat, capture and execution in 1811.
Gary Jennings’s Aztec Rage places Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla within a narrative shaped by political ambition and government, empire, conquest and resistance, and military command and battlefield decision-making. Gary Jennings’s Aztec Fire places Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla within a narrative shaped by empire, conquest and resistance, exploration, travel and cultural encounter, and political ambition and government.
Series
The Aztec sequence follows Indigenous and mixed-ancestry protagonists through five centuries of Mexican history, from the height of Tenochtitlan to the wars that ended Spanish rule. The first novel gives Mixtli’s account of the empire under Ahuitzotl and Moctezuma II and carries his life into the conquest. Later…
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