Reduced prices on happy hour margaritas.
Lighten up, Francis.
Posted on 05/05/2017 11:09:12 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
President Andrew Johnson invoked the Monroe Doctrine in February 1866, and demanded that the French leave Mexico
There is actually more to the holiday of Cinco de Mayo than great tacos or lively music; there are lessons to be learned hidden within the history of this holiday, which provide deeper understanding of a very perilous time in the Americas. Today Cinco de Mayo has taken on a more political significance in light of Donald Trump’s campaign promises, and his challenge as the President of the United States to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico. It was one major campaign theme that helped Trump to capture the attention of the American people, as well as the votes that got him elected. Yet, once upon a time, long, long ago, the U.S. stood by Mexico to defend the nation against a genuine enemy.
Happy San Jacinto Day!
If Mexico is so great they are celebrating it, go back and live in Mexico.
Thank you for posting this very interesting article.
Just got home from lunch at Mexican Restaurant with husband & son. Feel pretty good- if this is treason, I’ll have another. Frozen. Salted. :-).
I’ve read stuff like this and while there is more than a kernel of truth to it, make no mistake, Mexico (circa 1823) has been a nation of cheaters, liars and deadbeats.
The nation of Mexico had become well known for not paying their debts and they had a sizable one with France, who intended to be paid.
Mexico has always been poorly managed, fiscally and the French came to collect a debt, much the same way the IRS would.
Chinga Mejico!
Reduced prices on happy hour margaritas.
Lighten up, Francis.
Everybody in the western US should celebrate San Jacinto Day (April 21). The Battle of San Jacinto paved the way for the opening of the West to American settlement and annexation.
San Jacinto Monument, La Porte, Texas
One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor!
Seriously, the holiday is almost entirely made up by the hospitality industry.
So enjoy a cheap Corona or Tecate and watch the blondes get drunk and place bets on how long it takes for their tequila angry drunk to kick in.
They celebrate the fact that they don’t pay their bills.
The Mexican elite still harbors a love for the French Revolution terrorists. We are not done cleaning up this trash. When I mingled with them they kept relling me how Robespierre was such a great guy . Sure, so great that when the part of the nobility that decided to give away their lands looked too good, he had them beheaded...
We should like those who fought the battle,and “Rrmember the Alamo”
“We should like those who fought the battle,and “Rrmember the Alamo””
I agree.
I also submit this post as showing perhaps the margaritas have started...
On behalf of Mexico “our sister republic”—
U.S. General Philip Henry Sheridan
9th president of the NRA
supporter of the Mexican resistance agains the French:
“[General Grant] looked upon the invasion of Mexico by Maximilian as a part of the rebellion itself, because of the encouragement that invasion had received from the Confederacy, and that our success in putting down secession would never be complete till the French and Austrian invaders were compelled to quit the territory of our sister republic. With regard to this matter, though, he said it would be necessary for me to act with great circumspection, since the Secretary of State, Mr. Seward, was much opposed to the use of our troops along the border in any active way that would be likely to involve us in a war with European powers....”
“...one division of the Thirteenth Corps, occupied Galveston, and another division under General Fred Steele had gone to Brazos Santiago, to hold Brownsville and the line of the Rio Grande, the object being to prevent, as far as possible, the escaping Confederates from joining Maximilian. With this purpose in view, and not forgetting Grant’s conviction that the French invasion of Mexico was linked with the rebellion, I asked for an increase of force to send troops into Texas in fact, to concentrate at available points in the State an army strong enough to move against the invaders of Mexico if occasion demanded....”
“The latter part of June I repaired to Brownsville myself to impress the Imperialists, as much as possible, with the idea that we intended hostilities, and took along my chief of scouts—Major Young—and four of his most trusty men, whom I had had sent from Washington. From Brownsville I despatched all these men to important points in northern Mexico, to glean information regarding the movements of the Imperial forces, and also to gather intelligence about the ex-Confederates who had crossed the Rio Grande. On information furnished by these scouts, I caused General Steele to make demonstrations all along the lower Rio Grande, and at the same time demanded the return of certain munitions of war that had been turned over by ex-Confederates to the Imperial General (Mejia) commanding at Matamoras. These demands, backed up as they were by such a formidable show of force created much agitation and demoralization among the Imperial troops, and measures looking to the abandonment of northern Mexico were forthwith adopted by those in authority—a policy that would have resulted in the speedy evacuation of the entire country by Maximilian, had not our Government weakened; contenting itself with a few pieces of the contraband artillery varnished over with the Imperial apologies.”
“These reports and demonstrations [of renewed U.S. military maneuvers near the border] resulted in alarming the Imperialists so much that they withdrew the French and Austrian soldiers from Matamoras, and practically abandoned the whole of northern Mexico as far down as Monterey...”
“...it required the patience of Job to abide the slow and poky methods of our State Department, and, in truth, it was often very difficult to restrain officers and men from crossing the Rio Grande with hostile purpose. Within the knowledge of my troops, there had gone on formerly the transfer of organized bodies of ex-Confederates to Mexico, in aid of the Imperialists, and at this period it was known that there was in preparation an immigration scheme having in view the colonizing, at Cordova and one or two other places, of all the discontented elements of the defunct Confederacy...”
“During the winter and spring of 1866 we continued covertly supplying arms and ammunition to the Liberals—sending as many as 30,000 muskets from Baton Rouge Arsenal alone—and by mid-summer Juarez, having organized a pretty good sized army, was in possession of the whole line of the Rio Grande, and, in fact, of nearly the whole of Mexico down to San Louis Potosi. Then thick and fast came rumors pointing to the tottering condition of Maximilian’s Empire-first, that Orizaba and Vera Cruz were being fortified; then, that the French were to be withdrawn...”
I tried to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, but I didn’t know what to do. So I ordered a Sicilian pizza with mayo. The pizza guy tried to kill me. I won’t do that again. Viva la pepperoni!
hmmm. how much do we owe China? :)
>I tried to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, but I didn’t know what to do.
Just go buy or make a taco or burrito. :-)
My grampa helped build the San Jacinto Monument.
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