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Victory over French marks origin of Cinco de Mayo celebration
On this day in 1862, Mexican general Ignacio Zaragoza defeated French expeditionary forces at Puebla, Mexico. This event is celebrated annually as El Cinco de Mayo. Along with El Diez y Seis de Septiembre (September 16), on which is commemorated Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla's 1810 call for the end of Spanish rule in Mexico, El Cinco de Mayo is one of the Fiestas Patrias, annual celebrations of Mexican national holidays and of the ethnic heritage of Mexican-Americans.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- FIESTAS PATRIAS
- ZARAGOZA, IGNACIO SEGUIN
- HIDALGO Y COSTILLA, MIGUEL
- MEXICAN AMERICANS
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
- Texas native Zaragoza repels French army on Cinco De Mayo (1862)
- UT observatory dedicated in Davis Mountains (1939)
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