Cinco de Mayo, a victory against the French? That’s a Holiday? Beating the French?
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“Cinco de Mayo, a victory against the French? That’s a Holiday? Beating the French?”
And actually, after being held up by the Mexicans at Puebla for a bit, the French went around the town and marched into Mexico City with the mayor giving them the key to the city. Maximillian then ruled Mexico until good old Uncle Sugar made the French give it up because we didn’t want a European power as a neighbor.
Cinco de Mayo is a vastly overblown holiday invented in the USA to promote self esteem among Mexican students in our schools. It was not celebrated in Mexico until CA and TX began making it an event as big as Dies y Sies de Septiembre, Mexico’s Independence Day on Sept. 16.