Biography of José María Morelos Y Pavón

Jose maria morelos and pavon He was born in 1765 in the city of Valladolid, currently Morelia. In his youth he met the priest Miguel Hidalgo, being his most outstanding student at the Colegio de San Nicolás; at the conclusion of these studies, Morelos he was ordained as a priest, for which he was assigned to Curácuaro and later to Nicupetaro to attend the parish of both localities located in the State of Guanajuato.
A short time later, the uprising in arms led by Cura Miguel Hidalgo occurred on September 16, 1810, when Miguel Hidalgo was preparing to go to Valladolid with his entire contingent, on the way he decided to rest in a town called Charo, a place where what Jose Maria Morelos He was reunited with his teacher and in line with the idea of ​​independence, reprimanded his support for Hidalgo and put all the people at his service, who by then already followed and supported Hidalgo. Morelos. Hidalgo entrusted him with an army and right there appointed him a colonel and charged him with the defense of the south as well as spreading the ideals of freedom.

Apparently, Morelos he had knowledge in the art of war, since he was the most prominent over the other colonels of the rebellion; He fought battles in Tixtla, Valedero, Chautla de la Sal and Izúcar, for which he received the appointment of "Generalissimo".
On September 13, 1813, he met the first Congress in Chilpancingo, where the famous Act of Independence was written, in which the Mexican Republic was proclaimed.
He way to Valladolid, Morelos he was defeated by Iturbide, an officer who was serving Spain. In 1814, the military Calleja kept a siege in Cuautla for approximately two months, while Morelos, he cleverly devised to circumvent the site and evacuate the plaza with a minimum of losses.
He reorganized himself militarily, taking Oaxaca and Acapulco. For the year 1815, the good luck of Morelos it was decreasing and on November 5 of that same year he was defeated and captured in Temazcala.
Later, he was sentenced to be shot to death in San Cristóbal Ecatepec on December 22, 1815.