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Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
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Cinco de Mayo
Annual celebration held on May 5
Cinco de Mayo is an annual celebration held on May 5 to celebrate Mexico's victory over the Second French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862, led by General Ignacio Zaragoza. Zaragoza died months after the battle from an illness, however, and a larger French force ultimately…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Ignacio Zaragoza
Mexican Army officer and politician (1829–1862)
Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín was a Mexican Army officer and politician. He is best known for leading a Mexican army of 3,791 men which defeated a 5,730-strong force of French troops at the battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862 during the second French intervention in Mexico. The Mexican…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Battle of Puebla
Part of the French intervention in Mexico
The Battle of Puebla, also known as the Battle of the Fifth of May took place on 5 May 1862, near Puebla de los Ángeles, during the second French intervention in Mexico. French troops under the command of Charles de Lorencez repeatedly failed to storm the forts of Loreto and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Mexico
Country in North America
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundaries with the Pacific Ocean to the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)