XXV.
Hidalgo [238]-249
Birth and education, [238]—Colegio de San Nicholas, [238]—He takes orders, [238]; life at Dolores, [240]; bold schemes, [240]—Ignacio Allende, [241]; An important step, [241]—The Grito de Dolores, [242]—A new army, [242]—Attack on Guanajuato, [243]—A brave boy, [243]—The new viceroy, [243]—Hidalgo excommunicated, [244]—Valladolid taken, [245]—Monte de la Cruces, [245]—The insurgents defeated at Aculco, [246]—Hidalgo declared Generalissimo, [246]—Battle of Calderon, [247]—Capture and death of the chiefs, [248]—End of the struggle for independence, [248].