Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pickin and Grinin, post: 8616946, member: 73995&quot;]I never really looked into it before. I thought that Hidalgo was just a prominent person or possibly a President.</p><p>He was actually a priest who led the Mexican war of independence from Spain.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Hidalgo_y_Costilla" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Hidalgo_y_Costilla" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Hidalgo_y_Costilla</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Without reading a lot into the wiki.</p><p>It was over not being able to grow grapes and olives because it took away from imports from Spain.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in