During this process to form the First Mexican Empire, a Government Provisional Board was appointed, made up of members of clergy and wealthy personalities, such as landowners and merchants ...

Prior to leaving the title of the First Mexican Empire and together with Congress, the Iguala Plan and the Treaties of Cordoba were declared null and void, this in order to allow Mexico to become ...

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(Since independence from Spain in 1821, Mexico had been led by a variety of governments, including the First Mexican Empire, in 1821-23.) After months of negotiations, Spain and Britain withdrew.