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The "Mexican National Anthem", [a] also known by its incipit "Mexicans, at the Cry of War", [b] is the official national anthem of the United Mexican States.Its lyrics, composed by poet Francisco González Bocanegra after a Federal contest in 1853, allude to historical Mexican victories in battle and cries of defending the homeland.
Tomb of Francisco González Bocanegra and Jaime Nunó Roca at the Panteón Civil de Dolores in Mexico City. On November 12, 1853, President Antonio López de Santa Anna announced a competition to write a national anthem for Mexico. The competition offered a prize for the best poetic composition representing patriotic ideals.
Nunó's gravesite in Mexico City. After a time in Spain, he returned to the U.S. and settled in Buffalo, New York, where he was found by a Mexican journalist in 1901. [4] When this news reached Mexico, the current president, Porfirio Díaz, invited him to return; he did so and received various honors between 1901 and 1904. He died in New York ...
The Law on the National Coat of Arms, Flag and Anthem (Spanish: Ley sobre el Escudo, la Bandera y el Himno Nacional) is a set of rules and guidelines passed by the Mexican government on the display and use of the flag (bandera), coat of arms (escudo) and the anthem (himno). The original law was passed in 1984 and it contains 7 chapters, a ...
Español: Escudo Nacional de México, conforme con el modelo diseñado por Francisco Eppens Helguera y adoptado oficialmente por el Decreto del 17 de agosto de 1968, ratificado por la Ley sobre el escudo, la Bandera y el Himno Nacionales, vigente desde el 24 de febrero de 1984. El blasonamiento quedó descrito oficialmente en el artículo 2.º ...
A woman was arrested on Thursday after she took down an American flag and placed it on the muddy ground at a California park, replacing it with a Mexican flag.. Kern County deputies responded to ...
Following this, several nations moved to adopt as official national anthem patriotic songs that had already been in de facto use at official functions, such as Mexico (Mexicanos, al grito de guerra, composed 1854, adopted 1943) and Switzerland ("Swiss Psalm", composed 1841, de facto use from 1961, adopted 1981).
This article is about the poem that is used current by Mexico as their national anthem. This was a fairly decent article, but I added some things to it, added recordings, and trimmed the lyrics down. However, I do ask that before I sent this to FAC, if the following can be checked: