Happy Cinco de Mayo!
Celebrating the defeat of a French army by an ill-equiped and smaller Mexican force, ending French colonial intervention in the state of Peubla, Mexico… It has become a major holiday in both Puebla and in the US…
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Happy Cinco de Mayo!
Celebrating the defeat of a French army by an ill-equiped and smaller Mexican force, ending French colonial intervention in the state of Peubla, Mexico… It has become a major holiday in both Puebla and in the US…
One response to “Happy Cinco de Mayo”
Thanks 😃… That French colonial army defeat probably convinced Napoleon III to forgo supporting the Confederacy during our Civil War… Which historians claim he was considering had he not lost at El Puebla… Interesting historical perspective…; -)
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