The Background
With the arrival of the Bourbons on the throne of Spain in 1701 came a period of nder Indio Mariano, one of them serious, led by different men. The first of these took place in Tepic, Nueva Galicia in January. The second, for which rebellion is too strong a word, was in September in Nuevo León.
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