The girl with the flag is from a different picture but isn’t she gorgeous? I hope she has wonderful dreams and high aspirations.
“By 1809 Hidalgo’s sense of discontent was turning openly to revolutionary politics, and the possibility of a rising against the vice-regal government of what was then New Spain. He was joined by Ignacio Allende, a young officer from the nearby town of San Miguel, also a Creole, frustrated by the inherent chauvinism in the colonial administration, which preferred to advance immigrant Spaniards, rather than people born in Mexico, no matter how “pure” their blood. The fall of Ferdinand created a vacuum which Allende and other ambitious Creoles were determined to fill.”