Mariano Matamoros was a serene priest when he rushed to the Independence war, but in no time he ended up being not only the right arm of Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon, but also the second most important man of the Insurgent Army. After Morelos, he was the commanding officer of the armies of the provinces of Tecpan, Oaxaca, Mexico, Puebla, Veracruz and Tlaxcala, with the expressed mandate to assume the place of the Generalisimo in the event of his absence. And it was not only because he knew how to write with neatness and ...
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Mariano Matamoros was a serene priest when he rushed to the Independence war, but in no time he ended up being not only the right arm of Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon, but also the second most important man of the Insurgent Army. After Morelos, he was the commanding officer of the armies of the provinces of Tecpan, Oaxaca, Mexico, Puebla, Veracruz and Tlaxcala, with the expressed mandate to assume the place of the Generalisimo in the event of his absence. And it was not only because he knew how to write with neatness and elegance, which was not the case of Hermenegildo Galeana, who could have been the second because of his courage, but because Matamoros was a great strategist, a born soldier and a virtuous man. This novel -the first one ever written about Mariano Matamoros- discloses the passions and contradictions, the religious vocation and the earthly flares of a man that was, at all times, a glare in the battles of the Insurgent Army due to his behavior, organization and firm hand to punish those who stole from the enemy or burglarized his properties, and exposes his life principles and his actions of death and destruction, as well as a revealing trial that could not degrade him out of his condition as a priest. With this work. Mariano Matamoros era un cura sereno cuando se lanzo a la guerra de independencia, pero llego a ser en poco tiempo no solo el brazo derecho de Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon, sino el segundo hombre importante del Ejercito Insurgente. Despues de Morelos, estaba el como comandante en jefe de los ejercitos de las provincias de Tecpan, Oaxaca, Mexico, Puebla, Veracruz y Tlaxcala, con el mandato expreso de que en caso de faltar el Generalisimo, don Mariano tomara su lugar. Y no fue solo porque sabia escribir con pulcritud y elegancia, a diferencia de don Hermenegildo Galeana, quien pudo haber sido el segundo por su arrojo, sino porque era un gran estratega, un militar nato y un hombre virtuoso.
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