S1 • E7 Oct 21, 2010
When Morelos died, it seemed the Insurgency would die with him. But Vicente Guerrero, the muleteer from Tixtla who became a warrior, persevered as one of the few pillars sustaining the cause of the Insurgency. The name Guerrero took on mythological proportions, and the royalists knew that they would have to defeat him in order to end the war. What few could have foretold was that Guerrero would be the first to pact with Iturbide and, together with him, mark the end of the War and the start of Independence.
