Miguel Hidalgo recognized the Mestizo and indigenous frustrations and being a Criollo elite he believed he could organize the two groups to fight alongside the Criollo in a revolution against the rule of the Peninsulares and the local Spanish government. Hidalgo managed to organize them with talks about taking back the land that had been stolen from them from the Peninsulares even though it was the Criollo that had taken the majority of the land. Hidalgo had an army of about 20 thousand made up of Working class people armed with shovels and machetes they marched to a nearby Peninsulare mining town to attack, but having little control over his army the Mestizo and Indigenous rampaged and killed hundreds of Peninsulares and Criollos alike, knowing