Pedro Moreno (freedom fighter)
Pedro Moreno González de Hermosillo , (born January 18, 1775 in Santa María de Lagos , Jalisco , Mexico , † October 27, 1817 near Guanajuato , Mexico) was an independence fighter in the Mexican War of Independence .
Life
Pedro Moreno was born into a wealthy family of landowners on his parents' hacienda La Gada , which is part of the municipality of Lagos in what is now the state of Jalisco . In his honor, Lagos was given the current name Lagos de Moreno . His parents were Manuel Moreno de Ortega y Verdín de Villavicencio and María del Rosarion González de Hermosillo y Márquez.
Moreno attended the Guadalajara seminary but returned to his family's estates at the turn of the century to pursue agriculture and trade. He married Rita Pérez Jiménez.
When the independence movement demanded separation from motherland Spain in 1810, the progressive-minded Moreno was on their side. From 1814 he took an active part in the war: from friends of his farmers and farm workers, he formed a guerrilla unit on his hacienda La Sauceda , with which he repeatedly attacked the royalist Spanish troops.
As a retreat for his troops, he built the fortress El Sombrero . In June 1817, a group of volunteers from Europe, under the command of Francisco Javier Mina, joined Moreno's unit. A little later, the Spaniards under Pascual Liñán arrived and attacked the fortress. After the rebels were able to withstand several attacks, they left the fort at night on August 15, 1817, but were discovered, attacked and defeated by the royalists. Mina and Moreno withdrew back into the fortress.
The Spanish besieged the fort until mid-October; When the supplies of the remaining insurgents ran out, they attempted another failure and fled inland.
They were attacked by Spanish troops on October 27 at the El Venadito ranch near Guanajuato . Pedro Moreno fell, Francisco Mina was captured and a few days later shot dead. The Spanish viceroy Juan Ruiz de Apodaca was raised to the rank of Count of Venadito in gratitude by King Ferdinand VII .
Honors
His hometown was renamed Lagos de Moreno in his honor .
The mortal remains of Moreno lie with those of 13 other independence fighters in the victory column El Ángel de la Independencia in Mexico City .
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| SURNAME | Moreno, Pedro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moreno González de Hermosillo, Pedro (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Fighters in the Mexican War of Independence |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1775 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santa María de Lagos , Jalisco , Mexico |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1817 |
| Place of death | Ranch El Venadito near Guanajuato (City) , Mexico |