Los hombres. The parade was so HUGE because every organization from the whole state sent teams of marchers. Every school, every government department, every public service group, it just went on and ON.
“Early on the morning of Sunday September 16, 1810 Hidalgo and Allende received from Doña Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez (“La Corregidora” from Querétaro) a warning that the authorities had intelligence of the planned rising. Hidalgo’s parishioners had been coming in from the surrounding countryside, expecting to hear mass; instead they heard a call to arms. As well as invoking the name of King Ferdinand and the Virgin of Guadalupe, he denounced the Gauchupines, a derogatory term for the Spanish-born overlords, specifically designed to appeal to an Indian audience.”