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Rh and Allende will be more particularly confined to the provinces of Nueva Galicia, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosí, it will be necessary to give some account of the events there occurring during these same two months.

While Hidalgo was in Guanajuato, José Antonio Torres, who had joined the revolutionary standard with a few followers at Irapuato, asked for and obtained authority from Hidalgo to occupy Guadalajara, Torres was an honest, conscientious man, without education, being a peasant of San Pedro Piedragorda in Guanajuato; but he was not without talent, and