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Place of Birth: San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico
About Ignacio Allende
- Ignacio José de Allende y Unzaga (US: , UK: , Spanish: [i?'nasjo a'?ende]; January 21, 1769 – June 26, 1811), born Ignacio Allende y Unzaga, was a captain of the Spanish Army in Mexico who came to sympathize with the Mexican independence movement.
- He attended the secret meetings organized by Josefa Ortiz de DomĂnguez, where the possibility of an independent New Spain was discussed.
- He fought along with Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla in the first stage of the struggle, eventually succeeding him in leadership of the rebellion.
- Allende was captured by Spanish colonial authorities while he was in Coahuila and executed for treason in Chihuahua.
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