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September 11th of the present year marks the 175th anniversary of “The Victory of Tampico of 1829”, event that marked the final chapter and the end of all the independent movement of Mexico.
The event started the same year when a group of Spanish exiles plead to the king of Spain to sent troops to Mexico to reconquer the territory for the Spanish crown. The King of Spain accedes to the plead and sends Brigadier Isidro Barradas, a Spanish military who ins convinced by the exiles that the people of méxico wanted to return to the Spanish rule. Barradas started his trip from Cuba with a squadron of 40 ships, nearly 3,500 men and enough ammunition and supplies. His objective was to suppress the Independent movement of Mexico and reestablish the rule of Fernando VII over what was known as New Spain. This armed intervention, the first one of México as an independent nation started on July 27th 1829 when the Spanish Expeditionary troops disembarked at Cabo Rojo, Veracruz, approximately 70 kilometers south of Tampico. On August 6th during the night, Barradas entered Tampico after setting fire to the Fortín de la Barra located on the southern river margin of the Pánuco River, and whose defendant, the commander Mariano Palacios, fled to Villerías, today known as Altamira as well as the civil population of Tampico that set in motion the strategy known as “destroyed City”, cleaning the trees of all fruit, closing wells and water supplies and anything that could be of use to the invaders so when the Spanish arrived to Tampico their stay was unpleasant as possible. Barradas set his headquarters in the heart of downtown in the house located on the corner of the Juárez and Madero Streets. To take care of this armed intervention, President Vicente Guerrero order the generals Antonio López de Santa Anna and Mier y Terán to move from Veracruz and Matamoros to be joined in Tampico by the military commander of Tamaulipas, general Felipe De La Garza. On August 21st, a group of Spanish soldiers departed Tampico on to Villerías while a Mexican army crossed the Pánuco River and fought in Tampico to the Spanish soldiers that were garrisoned the city. This battle took place on the site occupied today by the Liberty Square and is known as the “Battle for Tampico”. After a bloody battle the Spanish soldiers plead a cease fire to surrender, when the generals of both armies were signing the agreements the major portion of the Spanish army arrived and both sides agreed that both armies returned to their respective lines which allowed the liberation of Villerías.
On September 9th, a strong hurricane hit the region bringing a great flood that the Mexicans took advantage for the final battle. On September 10th, Mier y Teran attacked with 900 men the Fortín de la Barra defended by 400 Spanish that surrendered the next day following an armistice, that aw<s ratified on the 11th signing the generals Antonio López de Santa Anna and Manuel Mier y Terán at the Spanish headquarters in Tampico.
The triumph of the Mexican troops over Barradas marked the end of all the Independence Movement and was a strong source for proud for the Mexicans thanks to the “Victory of Tampico of 1829” the national independence of our country was complete.
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The Mexican army departed towards its headquarters in Pueblo Viejo. From that day the headquarters of the Spanish was shelled by the Mexicans from the Paso de El Humo building in addition fortified positions that surrounded and immobilized the invaders that started to suffer from lack of water and food supplies.
