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SANTIAGO APARICIO, Eliud. The Site of Cuautla: An Approach to the Knowledge of the Insurgents from Prosopography and Infidelity (1812). Estud. hist. novohisp [online]. 2024, n.71, pp.15-51.  Epub 22-Out-2024. ISSN 2448-6922.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iih.24486922e.2024.71.77799.

This research analyzes three fundamental aspects of the siege of Cuautla: the reasons that motivated thousands of Cuautla residents to enlist in the insurgent ranks of priest Morelos, the causes that later led them to abandon Cuautla during the siege, as well as the measures that the royalist army set out after the siege. Two hypotheses are proposed here. The first propounds that the expansionism of the sugar estates was the main reason for rural workers to uprise. The second maintains that the motives for fleeing the military siege were hunger, bombing, epidemic, and death that the besieged endured for months. To support such stances, the processes of infidence of the deserters, located in the Infidence fund of the Archivo General de la Nación (Mexico), were analyzed through the methods of prosopography and statistics. Finally, the main findings of the article suggest that hunger was the worst enemy of the rebels in the siege of Cuautla, and that indigenous people were the main deserters while the combatants of African origin kept complete adherence to the priest Morelos.

Palavras-chave : war; Independence; siege; Morelos; desertion.

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