of New Spain in their council of lands, again in 1797 a land dispute occurred, due to a dispossession suffered by the natives of a part of the ranch of Santa Catarina put in the possession of captain José del Rivero, this problem was extended and the following year, the lands were restored to the natives of Valtierrilla. In the year of 1807 Don Nicolás Ángel López and Don Pedro Nolazco, mayor and regidor of the town of Santa Cruz Baltierrilla, filed a complaint that demanded with excess the tax of those registered in the town. So they attached a list of tributary Indians and list of all the misunderstandings that there are in the testimony of the registration. This non-compliance of the Indians lead to support of the independence movement because of the exaggerated taxes. But there is a significant fact: between 1808 and 1814, the available documentation records the constant donations and loans of a large number of indigenous communities of practically the entire vice-royalty to support the war of Spain with France. The registries show names and names of communities that offer their contributions, among them "Baltierrilla". Independence The inhabitants of the town of Valtierrilla supported the independence movement initiated by Miguel Hidalgo. Andres Delgado El giro and a group of more than two hundred men on horseback carried out attacks in the region, establishing a barracks in the community of Valtierrilla, where in June 1818 they captured Joaquin Cortes, captain of the infantry regiment, being kept for around fifteen days before he slipped from the rebels. In that same year, Andrés Delgado was apprehended and shot. An epidemic of typhus caused many deaths in Valtierrilla was in 1838, so disastrous that many people were buried in the chapel courtyard. In 1858, following the coup of Ignacio Comonfort in late 1857, the president of the Supreme Court, Benito Juárez, assumed executive authority to provide security to the state. The governor of Guanajuato supported him like the Liberal army, called the Coalition, commanded by General . The Conservative army, commanded by General , General Miguel Miramon, and Tomas Mejia, attacked. The forces met in Valtierrilla on a very broad front. The most bitter fighting took place on the road where the bridge crossed the Ugly brook. Colonel José María Calderón was killed there, a brilliant soldier, who at that time fighting against his former classmates from the military