Battle of Lomas de Santa María
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The <entity_1> was a <entity_5> of the <entity_0> that occurred from <entity_3>–24 <entity_3> in the area around Lomas de Santa María, in the municipality of <entity_4> (present day <entity_4>). The <entity_5> began when Mexican insurgents numbering around 5,600 men under the command of José María Morelos y Pavón, Mariano Matamoros y Guridi, Nicolás Bravo, and Hermenegildo Galeana attacked the city of <entity_4> at midday on <entity_3> after the Spanish refused their demands to surrender the city. The tide of the <entity_5> turned when reinforcements arrived from <entity_6> City sent by the Viceroy of New Spain, Félix María Calleja under the command of Ciriaco del Llano. After the declaration of Mexican independence triggered <entity_0>, the priest of Carácuaro, José María Morelos y Pavón met with rebel leader Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla on 20 October 1810 at Charo, <entity_2> where he was commissioned to fight against the Spanish colonial government in the southern area of the viceroyalty with the established goal of capturing Acapulco de Juárez. On the morning of <entity_3>, Morelos wrote Landázuri asking him to surrender the city of <entity_4>, promising to respect the lives of the commander and the royalist defenders.
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