Battle of Monte de las Cruces

Battle of Monte de las Cruces
Part of the Mexican War of Independence
Date 30 October 1810 Location Ocoyoacac, New Spain Result Tactical insurgent victory Hidalgo renounces to continue towards Mexico City
Belligerents
Mexican Insurgents	Royalist
Commanders and leaders
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Ignacio Allende Juan Aldama Mariano Abasolo	Torcuato Trujillo Agustin Iturbide
Strength
60,000 – 80,000[1][2] irregulars and militias	1,400[3] – 7,000[2] militias
Casualties and losses
3,000[1] – 5,000[2]	1,000[2] – 2,500[1]

The battle began at about 8am on 30 October 1810 in a cold pine forest on rugged territory. The battle had three phases, corresponding to the three offensives of the insurgent army against royalist positions. The first two were rebuffed, but the insurgents managed to surround the royalists.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} (in Spanish)Instituto Internacional de Historia Militar A. C. (1964). Los insurgentes de 1810: estudio crítico-analítico de las operaciones militares de la primera etapa de la Guerra de Independencia Mexicana. Ciudad de México: Editorial Militar Mexicana, pp. 46.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} David Marley (2009). Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere, 1492 to the Present. Tomo I. Santa Bárbara: ABC CLIO, pp. 584. ISBN 978-1-59884-100-8.
3. ↑ (in Spanish)Luciano Alexanderson Joublanc (1963). Ignacio López Rayón: libertador, unificador y primer legislador de México. México: Donis, pp. 43