Cinco de Mayo isn’t even an official holiday in Mexico, except in the state of Puebla where the battle took place.
Now thats funny! I did not know that
There were three battles at Puebla. In 1847 1800 sick and injured US troops along with 250 healthy ones defeated a two month siege there by Santa Anna and several thousand Mexican soldiers. Incidentally, Great great grandpa Rockpile was a Regular Army gravel-cruncher in that war.
In the third battle at Puebla the French Army returned and laid siege to the city and whipped the Mexican Army there. That was a good sized fight with over 20,000 on each side—— including I might add, the French 2nd Marines which has been fighting in wars for two hundred years including Trashistan.