[Mapa del Cerro de Barrabás donde se fortificó Don Vicente Guerrero después de retirarse de Zacatula, Mayo 1819.]. [1819?]

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[Mapa del Cerro de Barrabás donde se fortificó Don Vicente Guerrero después de retirarse de Zacatula, Mayo 1819.]. [1819?]

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Depicts the location of the Batalla del Cerro de Barrabás, near Zirándaro in what is now the state of Guerrero, Mexico. Vicente Guerrero, commander in chief of troops in the south of Mexico fighting royalist forces, took refuge in these mountains on September 30, 1818, fought off the opposing troops, and routed them a week later. The Rio Zacatula served as a boundary between royalist and resistance forces in 1818-19.

1 map : ms., col. ; 31 x 43 cm.

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Guerrero, Vicente, 1782-1831

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President of Mexico, military leader. Born 1782 in Tixtla; died 1831 in Cuilapan. Guerrero began his military career in 1810. He was commissioned captain by José María Morelos before the attack on Taxco, was made colonel in 1814 by Juan Nepomuceno Rosains, and received the rank of general from Agustín de Iturbide. After Iturbide was removed as emperor, Guerrero was named General de División, and became a member of the Supremo Poder Ejecutivo which governed until 1824. Guerrero ascended to th...