Guerrero Localities Tamaulipas States


Founded on October 10, 1750, the city of Guerrero, Tamaulipas, Mexico, was originally named Villa de Señor San Ignacio de Loyola de Revillagigedo. Conscious of the two most powerful institutions of eighteenth-century Spain--church and state, Don Vicente Guerra and the other forty-three founding families not only named the town after the Spanish founder of the Jesuit order (Ignacio de Loyola), but also in honor of the current viceroy of Nueva España, Juan Francisco Guemez y Horcasitas, First Count of Revillagigedo (1746-1755). Mercifully shortened to Revilla, the settlement's name remained until 1827 when the town's leaders decided to rename it in honor of Mexico's second democratically-elected president, Vicente Guerrero...-- Carlos Eliseo Cuéllar, Assistant Professor of History, Texas A&M International University








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