5 de Mayo

San Francisco de Campeche (Chiapas) · Mexico

Data: May 5 (veure totes les cronovies d’aquest dia)

Photograph: Conrad i Montse (2009-11-03)

1862. The General Zaragoza wins to the French in Puebla.

Cinco de Mayo, (Spanish for “Fifth of May”), national holiday in Mexico commemorating the Mexican Army’s defeat of French forces on May 5, 1862, in the Batalla de Puebla (Battle of Puebla).

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