He had an extraordinary sense of grandeur and believed himself to be much more than a mere mortal, thinking of himself as something of a god on earth. This is seen in the sentence where he claims himself to not just be a general, but rather someone that decides the fates, as if he has such grand power to decide the fate of not just a single person, but rather of "peoples"
Even before this spirit spread to Mexico, California felt the effects of the ... In 1808, Spain's American colonies, one by one, began to fight for independence. ... and American Rivers
