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Happy Cinco de Mayo! Time for a History Lesson
In the United States, Cinco de Mayo has a St. Paddy's-ish thing to it (i.e. It's an excuse to get blotto on a school night at all-you-can-drink...
05.07.09
In the United States, Cinco de Mayo has a St. Paddy's-ish thing to it (i.e. It's an excuse to get blotto on a school night at all-you-can-drink college bars). But like St. Patrick's Day, it also has some more sober origins-a classic tale of an underdog's unlikely victory at war.Cinco de Mayo is not-not-Mexican Independance Day. You maybe knew that, already. What it does commemorate is Mexico's 1862 victory over the French, which may or may not have been trying to seize the capital during its invasion of that country to try to get its foreign debt payments back after the Mexican-American