Happy Cinco de Mayo. Join Pedro and me for an ice cold margarita. Ole!
Why do we celebrate Cinco de Mayo? Because on the morning of May 5, 1862, 4,000 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 men at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City. The French had landed in Mexico to take over that country with plans to push north into the United States while we were preoccupied with our own Civil War. They wanted our country too.
It might be a historical stretch to credit the survival of the United States to those brave 4,000 Mexicans who faced an army twice as large, but who knows? I am more than willing to help them celebrate.
It might be a historical stretch to credit the survival of the United States to those brave 4,000 Mexicans who faced an army twice as large, but who knows? I am more than willing to help them celebrate.
OLE!
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