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Per the earliest accounts, Mexican independence hero Miguel Hidalgo shouted "Long live Ferdinand VII!" when he took up arms against the gov't of New Spain, so why does no one seem to be willing to call him a small-r royalist?

by /u/JJVMT in /r/AskHistorians

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