Vicente Guerrero

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Vicente Ramón Guerrero Saldaña (Spanish: [biˈsente raˈmoŋ ɡeˈreɾo]; baptized 10 August 1782 – 14 February 1831) was a Mexican military officer, guerrilla commander, and statesman who played a central role in the Mexican War of Independence and served as the nation's second president in 1829. Later official memory has also styled him a consummator of independence and a founder of the First Mexican Republic. Born in Tixtla to a family of modest means, he worked as an arriero before joining the insurgent army of José María Morelos in late 1810. Assigned to deal with local Indigenous communities, he used Spanish and Indigenous languages to recruit and hold support in Morelos's southern campaign. After Morelos's capture and execution in December 1815, Guerrero became one of the last major insurgent commanders still in the field and, from 1816 to 1821, kept the war alive by guerrilla warfare in the Tierra Caliente, refusing viceregal offers of pardon. In early 1821, with the restored Constitution...

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