CHAPTER I.--Lianza Viceroy--Audiencia--Venegas Viceroy--True sources of the Revolution--Creoles loyal to Ferdinand--Spaniards in favor of King Joseph--Mexican subscriptions for Spain--Secret union in Mexico against Spaniards--Hidalgo--Allende--First outbreak--Guanajuato sacked--Las Cruces--Mexico menaced--Indian bravery at Aculco--Marfil--Massacre at Guanajuato--Calleja-- Insurgents defeated--Execution of Hidalgo, 279 CHAPTER II.--Venegas Viceroy--Rayon--Junta in 1811--its willingness to receive Ferdinand VII.--Proclamation by the Junta--Morelos--Acapulco taken--Successes of the insurgents-- Siege of Cuautla--Izucar--Orizaba--Oaxaca--Chilpanzingo--Calleja Viceroy--Iturbide--Reverses of insurgents--Morelos shot, 287 CHAPTER III.--Apodaca Viceroy--Spanish constitution of 1812 proclaimed in Mexico--Condition of the revolutionary party-- Victoria--Mina lands at Soto la Marina--his efforts--Los Remedios--Guerrillas--he is shot--Padre Torres--Iturbide-- Apodaca selects him to establish absolutism--Iturbide promulgates the Plan of Iguala--Army of the Three Guaranties, 293 CHAPTER IV.--O'Donoju Viceroy--Conduct of Iturbide--Novella-- Revolt--Treaty of Cordova--First Mexican Cortes--Iturbide Emperor--his career--exiled to Italy--Iturbide returns-- arrest--execution--his character and services, 301 CHAPTER V.--Review of the condition of Mexico and the formation of parties--Viceroyal government--The people--The army--The church--Constitution of 1824--Echavari revolts--Victoria President--Escocesses--Yorkinos--Revolts continued--Montayno-- Guerrero--Gomez Pedraza President--is overthrown--Federalists-- Centralists--Guerrero President--Abolition of Slavery in Mexico, 307 CHAPTER VI.--Conspiracy against Guerrero by Bustamante--Guerrero betrayed and shot--Anecdote--Revolt under Santa Anna--he restores Pedraza and becomes President--Gomez Farias deposed-- Church--Central Constitution of 1836--Santa Anna--his Texan disgrace--Mexia--Bustamante President--French at Vera Cruz Revolts in the north and in the capital--Bustamante deposed--Santa Anna President, 316 CHAPTER VII.--Reconquest of Texas proposed--Canalizo President ad interim--Revolution under Paredes in 1844--Santa Anna falls-- Herrera President--Texan revolt--Origin of war with the United States--Texan war for the Constitution of 1824--Nationality recognized--Annexation to the United States--Proposition to Mexico--Herrera overthrown--Paredes President--Our minister rejected--Character of General Paredes, 326