UCalleja wayengumgqugquzeli futhi eyinhloko yebutho eliphakathi (1810-12) ngesikhathi seMpi Yenkululeko kanye no-viceroy wamashumi ayisithupha waseNew Spain, ebusa kusukela ngo-1813 kuya ku-1816, engomunye wabantu ababi emlandweni waseMexico.
Wazalelwa eMedina del Campo, eValladolid, washona eValencia. Wenza umkhankaso wakhe wokuqala njengommeli wesibili ohambweni olubi lwe-Algiers oluthi, ekubuseni kukaCharles III, lwaluholwa nguCount O'Reilly. Wayenguthisha nokaputeni wenkampani yama-cadet ayi-100, okubandakanya uJoaquín Blacke, owayengumphathi we-regent ngemuva kweSpain, noFrancisco Javier de Elío, owayeyinduna yaseBuenos Aires, e-Military School of Puerto de Santa María.
Wafika eNew Spain enesibalo sesibili sikaRevillagigedo (1789), njengokaputeni onamathele embuthweni wamasosha wasePuebla, futhi wenza ngempumelelo amakhomishini amaningana waze waqokwa njengomkhuzi webutho laseSan Luis Potosí. Wayephethe lapho ngaphansi komyalo wakhe ikomidi lamasosha elaliyalwe ukuthi liqoqwe nguViceroy Marquina, owayehanjelwa nenkampani yakhe nguCaptain Ignacio Allende. Lapho waphinde washada noDoña Francisca de la Gándara, indodakazi yesiginali sasebukhosini salelo dolobha, owayengumnikazi weHacienda de Bledos omkhulu; futhi waba nethonya elikhulu kubantu bezwe, ababemazi njengo "master Don Félix."
Lapho kwenzeka ukuhlubuka kukaHidalgo, ngaphandle kokulinda imiyalo evela ku-viceroy, wabeka amasosha ebutho lakhe ezingalweni, wawandisa ngamasha futhi wawahlela futhi wawaqondisa, wakha amancane (amadoda angama-4,000) kodwa ibutho elinamandla lesikhungo, elakwazi ukunqoba IHidalgo futhi ibhekane nesenzo esesabekayo esiqalwa nguMorelos.
UCalleja osethathe umhlalaphansi eMexico ngemuva kokuvinjezelwa kweCuautla (Meyi, 1812), wayenendawo yakhe yokuhlala (eCasa de Moncada, kamuva eyabizwa ngokuthi iPalacio Iturbide) inkantolo yakhe encane lapho ukungeneliseki noHulumeni waseVenegas, ababemsola ngokuntula imali futhi anginamandla okulawula nokuqeda inguquko. Cishe eminyakeni eyi-4 kamuva wabusa izwe njenge-viceroy. Uqedele umbutho ngokwenza ukuthi ufinyelele emadodeni angama-40,000 amabutho olayini kanye namasosha ezifundazwe, futhi abaningi bamakhosi bahlela kuwo wonke amadolobha nezigodi, bobabili beshiya kakhulu izifundazwe ezazinoguquko; wahlela kabusha uMnyango Wezimali Zomphakathi, omkhiqizo wawo wakhuphuka ngentela entsha; ivuselele isiminyaminya sezimoto ngemithwalo ejwayelekile ebuye isakaze futhi kusuka komunye umkhawulo wobukhosi kuya komunye kanye nesevisi ejwayelekile yeposi; futhi yakhulisa ukusebenza nemikhiqizo yamasiko.
Lokhu kucabanga imikhankaso eqhubekayo futhi enamandla ayikhuthaze ngokumelene nabavukeli, lapho uMorelos anqotshwa khona. Indoda eqinile futhi engathembekile, akazange azimise kwabezindaba futhi avale amehlo akhe ekuhlukumezeni okwenziwa ngamakhomanda akhe, uma befeza injongo yangempela ngentshiseko. Ngaleyo ndlela waba nenzondo kubantu besikhathi sakhe.
Wabuyela eSpain, wathola isihloko esithi Count of Calderón (1818) kanye neziphambano ezinkulu zika-Isabel la Católica neSan Hermenegildo. Ngemuva kokuba ngukaputeni jikelele waseAndalusia kanye noMbusi waseCádiz, wayephethe amabutho amasosha aseNingizimu Melika, avuka ngaphambi kokuhamba amfaka ejele (1820). Ededelwe, wenqaba uHulumeni waseValencia waphinda waboshwa, eMallorca, kwaze kwaba ngu-1823. "Wahlanzwa" ngo-1825, wahlala enkanjini eValencia waze wafa.
