La Historia Corto del Cinco de Mayo

La Historia Corto del Cinco de Mayo

Imaginado por El Duderino

Prelude/intro/:
Okay we all finally understand that cinco de mayo is not the Mexican independence day. That would be like saying the 4th of July is the day our constitution was written.

5th of May, 1862 is the day the Mexicans army and the indigenas people as allies fought back a French force of some 6,000 in Puebla, Mexico: three seperate times. Mexico was completely and totally broke at this time, it is still unclear how the generals and Benito Juarez kept the army paid or fed. Most likely it was the community that fed the army. The french were the superior fighting force of the world at this time(ironic?) and had been left in Veracruz to their own devices after the English and Spanish forces had respectfully withdrawn. So you can imagine the french petticoats marching through a high desert of some 9,000 feet with the volcano Popocateptl towering over them, thinking they are going to massacre the unpaid, corn fed, Motley Mexican Hombres, to only get their croissant and cheese blintz arses handed to them in embroidered silk hankerchiefs reading, "vete a la mierda, cabrones". touche!. Three times the Poblanos turned them back at the forts(it's unclear to historians if there was time for a siesta or not) and all day the Zacapoaxtla Indigenas killed the french off in "mano a mano" combat. Dios only knows what happened to the bayonets.

It should be noted here, to you Steve as well, that this was only one battle, one victory. It then took the still underpaid, underfed Mexican Army 5 more years to totally expel the (34,000)french forces and execute the appointed "French Emperor of Mexico", Maximillian.(cousin to France's emperor Napoleon III)

Cinco Anos despues del Cinco de Mayo.

If you remember, the US in all of this was fighting it's own civil war at this time.
The mexicans do celebrate this day in Puebla still. "i seen it"they just don't celebrate it like the Irish americans celebrate St. Patrick's day.

So go raise a Dos Equis or Margarita to those Mexican forces that kicked Frances arse and to anyone else we all know with a 5 year battle in front of them