Royalist forces in New Spain

E882866
military organization

Royalist forces in New Spain were the military units in colonial Mexico that fought to maintain loyalty to the Spanish Crown and suppress the independence movement during the early 19th century.

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
royalist army of New Spain 2
Royalist Army (New Spain) 1
Royalist army of New Spain (earlier in career) 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf military organization ⓘ
activeIn Mexican War of Independence NERFINISHED ⓘ
allegiance Kingdom of Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ
Spanish Crown NERFINISHED ⓘ
commandedBy Agustín de Iturbide NERFINISHED ⓘ
Félix María Calleja NERFINISHED ⓘ
José de Iturrigaray NERFINISHED ⓘ
José de la Cruz NERFINISHED ⓘ
Juan Ruiz de Apodaca NERFINISHED ⓘ
composedOf castas ⓘ
criollos ⓘ
indigenous auxiliaries ⓘ
peninsular Spaniards ⓘ
country Viceroyalty of New Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ
disbandedAsResultOf Mexican independence ⓘ
endTime 1821 ⓘ
equipment cannons ⓘ
muskets ⓘ
sabres ⓘ
goal maintain loyalty to the Spanish Crown ⓘ
suppress independence movement in New Spain ⓘ
hasPart artillery units ⓘ
cavalry units ⓘ
colonial militias ⓘ
dragoon regiments ⓘ
infantry battalions ⓘ
provincial militias ⓘ
regular army units ⓘ
ideology loyalism to Bourbon monarchy ⓘ
monarchism ⓘ
languageOfCommand Spanish ⓘ
location New Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ
colonial Mexico ⓘ
opposedBy Mexican independence movement NERFINISHED ⓘ
Mexican insurgent forces ⓘ
participatedIn Battle of Calderón Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ
Battle of Puente de Calderón NERFINISHED ⓘ
Siege of Cuautla NERFINISHED ⓘ
campaigns against José María Morelos ⓘ
campaigns against Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla ⓘ
partOf Spanish Army NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion Roman Catholicism ⓘ
reorganizedInto early Mexican Army units ⓘ
startTime 1810 ⓘ
subordinateTo Spanish Ministry of War NERFINISHED ⓘ
viceroy of New Spain NERFINISHED ⓘ
uniformStyle Spanish colonial military uniforms ⓘ
usedRankStructure Spanish Army ranks NERFINISHED ⓘ
uses Spanish colonial military regulations ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Royalist forces in New Spain
Description of subject: Royalist forces in New Spain were the military units in colonial Mexico that fought to maintain loyalty to the Spanish Crown and suppress the independence movement during the early 19th century.

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Spanish royalists → hasPart → Royalist forces in New Spain ⓘ
Suppression of early stages of the Mexican War of Independence → carriedOutBy → Royalist forces in New Spain ⓘ
this entity surface form: royalist army of New Spain
Southern campaign of the Mexican War of Independence → belligerent → Royalist forces in New Spain ⓘ
this entity surface form: royalist army of New Spain
Agustín I of Mexico → allegiance → Royalist forces in New Spain ⓘ
this entity surface form: Royalist army of New Spain (earlier in career)
Insurgent Army (Mexican War of Independence) → opposedTo → Royalist forces in New Spain ⓘ
this entity surface form: Royalist Army (New Spain)
Battle of Aculco → belligerent → Royalist forces in New Spain ⓘ
this entity surface form: Royalist forces of New Spain