Note 10 — XVI
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This is the famous bell the priest Hidalgo rang from his church in the village of Dolores, in the State of Guanajauto, in the early morning of September 16th, 1810, sounding the appeal known as the “Grito de Dolores” (cry from Dolores)—the first cry of Mexican independence, to be continued through more than a century of blood and disaster.