what is the battle of ayacucho?
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During the Peruvian War of Independence, the area surrounding Ayacucho was the last territory held by the Spaniards. On December 9, 1824, the Battle of Ayacucho, or "La Quinua", took place at Pampa de La Quinua, few miles away from Ayacucho, near the town of Quinua. This battle – between the royalist (Spanish) and nationalist (republican) troops – sealed the independence of Peru and South America. The nationalist republican forces were lead by Antonio José de Sucre, Bolívar's lieutenant. The nationalist army defeated the colonial regime, so Bolívar changed the city's name to Ayacucho. After the battle, Viceroy José de la Serna signed the final capitulation whereby the Spanish agreed to leave Peru.\n\nAyacucho is known as the city of 33 (colonial) churches, such as Santo Domingo, San Agustin and San Francisco. The oldest churches in the city were built in the 15th century, and contain Spanish, Latin and Moorish influences.
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Battle of the Kalka River (May 31, 1223) was the first military engagement between the Mongol armies of Genghis Khan and the East Slavic warriors. It was fought on the bank of the Kalka River, somewhere between present-day Donetsk and Mariupol.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kalka_River
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I vote for the xiuhcoatl... In aztec mythology, the xiuhcoatl is like a sword, handled by Huitzilopochtli to kill anyone who mistreated his mother, Tonantzin. \n\nIn Hollywood terms, is like a lightsaber, but really powerful!
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Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe. Muerte a los Espanollos.\n\nThe 'Grito de Dolores' was shouted (grito=shout/scream/yell) by Father Hidaldo from the balcony of the Mayor's palace in Dolores (now Dolores Hidalgo) on Sept 16, 1810.\n\nFather Hidalgo (a priest, obviously) and Ignacio Allende (a Spanish Army officer, Criollio=born in Mexico) raised an army of Indians in revolt against Spanish rule in Mexico. Father Hidalgo gave a rousing speech called "El Grito de Dolores" and they marched across Mexico killing Spaniards.\nMajor oversimplification. For starters see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grito_de_Dolores\n\nDick
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Excuse me? The Battle of the Alamo was fought for Texas independence from a brutal dictator named Santa Ana. Those 187 men sacrificed themselves to buy General Sam Houston time to train   a bunch of farmers.merchants ,mountain men and Indian fighters into a proper army.\n Speaking as a Mexican/American, no one is trying to take over anything.Look around us here. You can't throw a rock  without hitting a Mexican /American.\nWe just happen to be the largest growing CULTURE in the nation. Stop beating a dead horse.
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Hey thewanderer862004.  I think you need to read up on American history.  The US did attack and capture Mexico City, but we gave it back because it was 2 weeks after the end of the Mexican-American war in 1848.\n\nHowever, The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the war and gave the U.S control of Texas, California, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming.
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The Mexican War between the United States and Mexico began with a Mexican attack on American troops along the southern border of Texas on Apr. 25, 1846. Fighting ended when U.S. Gen. Winfield Scott occupied Mexico City on Sept. 14, 1847; a few months later a peace treaty was signed (Feb. 2, 1848) at Guadalupe Hidalgo. In addition to recognizing the U.S. annexation of Texas defeated Mexico ceded California and , New Mexico (including all the present-day states of the Southwest) to the United States.
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It is a day of celebration of when the Mexican army defeated the French. There was just a program on the Discovery channel about 2 hours ago about it! Check the listing I'm sure it will be on again.
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In Aztec mythology, Huitzilopochtli, also spelled Uitzilopochtli ("Hummingbird of the South", "He of the South", "Hummingbird on the Left (South)", or "Left-Handed Humming Bird" – huitzil is the Nahuatl word for hummingbird), was a god of war and a sun god and the patron of the city of Tenochtitlan.\n\nHe was also the national god of the Aztecs. As well as being a god of war and a sun god, he was also a god of death, young men, warriors, storms, and a guide for journeys.\n\nIn the Nahua culture, many names have an esoteric meaning, known only to some. According Laurette Sejourne, in his book "Burning water" (sacred war) in Nahua maps, the South is at the left, and in the South is the paradise of the sun. Also, the souls of the dead warriors return to the earth as butterflies and hummingbirds, so the esoteric meaning of Huitzilopochtli is "the warrior soul from the paradise."\n\nHis mother was Coatlicue, his father a ball of feathers (or, alternatively, Mixcoatl). His sister was Malinalxochi, a beautiful sorceress, who was also his rival. His messenger or impersonator was Paynal.\n\nThe leyend of Huitzilopochtli is recorded in the Mexicayotl Chronicle. His sister, Coyolxauhqui, tried to kill their mother because she became pregnant in a shameful way (by a ball of feathers). Her fetus, Huitzilopochtli, sprang from her womb and killed Coyolxauhqui, along with many of his 400 brothers and sisters. He then tossed her head into the sky, where it became the moon, so that his mother would be comforted in seeing her daughter in the sky every night.\n\nHuitzilopochtli was a tribal god, and a legendary wizard of the Aztecs, and originally was of little importance to the Nahuas, but after the rise of the Aztecs, Tlacaelel reformed their religion and put Huitzilopochtli at the same level as Quetzalcoatl, Tlaloc, and Tezcatlipoca, making him a solar god. So he replaced Nanahuatzin, the solar god from the Nahua legend, with Huitzilopochtli. Huitzilopochtli was said to be in a constant struggle with the darkness, and he needed to replace his blood, hence the major sacrifices.\n\nThe Nahuas believed the world would end like the other previous four creations. Every fifty-two years, they feared the world would end. Under Tlacaelel, Aztecs believed that they could give strength to Huitzilopochtli with human blood and thereby postpone the end of the world, at least for another fifty-two years. Ironically, the Aztec empire fell at the end of this cycle.
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David fighting and beating Goliath\nWhole Book of Job
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Apocalypto. It's about the Maya and is entirely in their language.
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http://www.civilwarhome.com/anacondaplan.htm or \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansconda_Plan
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I think Tenochtitlan was the capital, right?\n\nI'm so bad at history that my information might not even be correct and I may have confused it with the other groups, but the Aztecs were interesting. Wasn't Tecnochitialtieh built of stone or something, because that's basically what you have to work with back then?\n\nAnd I think the Spanards conquered it when some guy went there and burned their books because it was against his religious teaching and he wanted to make them Christian or something.\n\nyou know what, I suck.
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There are tons of resources on the internet, you should also check out your local library.\n\nhe term, Aztec, is a startlingly imprecise term to describe the culture that dominated the Valley of Mexico in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Properly speaking, all the Nahua-speaking peoples in the Valley of Mexico were Aztecs, while the culture that dominated the area was a tribe of the Mexica (pronounced "me-shee-ka") called the Tenochca ("te-noch-ka"). At the time of the European conquest, they called themselves either "Tenochca" or "Toltec," which was the name assumed by the bearers of the Classic Mesoamerican culture. The earliest we know about the Mexica is that they migrated from the north into the Valley of Mexico as early as the twelfth century AD, well after the close of the Classic Period in Mesoamerica. They were a subject and abject people, forced to live on the worst lands in the valley. They adopted the cultural patterns (called Mixteca-Pueblo) that originated in the culture of Teotihuacán, so the urban culture they built in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries is essentially a continuation of Teotihuacán culture.
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They lost to mexico...figure it out
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El Cinco de Mayo("The Fifth of May" in Spanish) is a national celebration in Mexico. It commemorates the victory of Mexican forces led by General Ignacio Zaragoza over the French expeditionary forces in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862.
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The US invaded Mexico in the 19th century and carried off six Mexican states, giving Mexico $2 million compensation.\nI would say the motivation was the same, a massive land/resources grab. Fortunately, Mexico regained control of its oil and mining in the 1930s.\n\nThe US–Mexican War was a military conflict fought between the United States and Mexico in the years 1846 to 1848, in the wake of the U.S. annexation of Texas in 1845. Mexico had always refused to recognize the loss of Texas in 1836 and announced its intention to take back what it considered a rebel province. In the United States, the war was a partisan issue, supported by most Democrats and opposed by most Whigs. Popular belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States ultimately translated into public support for the war. In Mexico, the war was considered a matter of national pride.