Who was the leader of the Mexican Forces during the Battle of Puebla?
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During the Battle of Puebla (May 5, 1862), invading French troops were repulsed there by a much smaller Mexican force under the command of General Ignacio Zaragoza; thereafter the city was renamed Puebla de Zaragoza, and May 5th (Cinco de Mayo) became a Mexican national holiday. The Serdan brothers of Puebla played a major role in initiating the Mexican Revolution in 1910.
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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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Cinco de Mayo is NOT Mexican Independence Day. I have no idea why people think it is. It is a celebration commemorating the defeat of the French in the Battle of Puebla. (By the way, the real Mexican Independence Day is September 16.)
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The celebration of Cinco de Mayo (meaning 5th of May in Spanish) should not be confused with Mexican Independence Day. Mexican Independence Day is celebrated on 15th September while Cinco de Mayo falls on 5th of May. Mexico declared its independence from Spain on 24th August, 1821. This modern holiday begain when a group of California State University students decided to hold the first Cinco de Mayo commemoration in the United States. This was around 1967. The students felt that there was no Chicano holidays and needed to do something about it. They wanted something to recapture their history and identity and decided that the Battle of Puebla was symbolic and they could connect it to their struggle for the formation of a Chicano Studies program at the university.\n\nCinco de Mayo is not an American Holiday but it is celebrated on a much larger scale by Chicanos in the U.S. than in Mexico. In Mexico, the celebration of Independence Day is considered more important. Cinco de Mayo is the celebration of the courage of the Mexican people during the battle (La Batalla de Puebla) on May 5th, 1862 where 4,500 Mexican soldiers defeated the Mexican traitors (exiled Mexican Convervatives) and French army of 6,500 at Puebla, Mexico . Puebla is 100 miles east of Mexico City. The Mexican forces were made up of untrained commoners. This victory did not win the war but it showed the courage and strength of the Mexican troops. The "Batalla de Puebla" became a symbol of Mexican unity and patriotism.\n\nAfter Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821, the country was faced with many problems. There were internal power struggles and during the dictatorship of Santa Anna, Mexico went to war with the United States in 1846. This war and the years of fighting put Mexico in a very bad financial position. It was bankrupt. Mexico had to give away a huge portion of its land to the United States. That land is now known as Texas.
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The whole mexican revolution is a bit complex, at least for me. During the election of 1910, Francisco I. Madero was jailed and Porfirio Díaz was declared winner of the elections. The vigilance in Madero’s imprisionment was quite relaxed and Madero escaped without problems, he issued his Plan de San Luis Potosí from San Antonio, Texas, declared the elections null and called for a revolution in November 20th, Díaz was overthrown in a few months and went to France where he died, Madero took the Mexican presidency.\n\nThe real revolts started AFTER Madero took power as president. Zapata wasn’t happy with Madero’s performance and announced his Plan the Ayala, his idea was to take the land from the rich and give it to the poor, the civil war started. Madero was betrayed by his commander in chief Victoriano Huerta (a conspiracy with US Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson) and was killed. Huerta was declared President, Venustiano Carranza, the Coahuila State Governor, didn’t recognize Huerta and declared war, to that side joined Pancho Villa, Álvaro Obregón and Emiliano Zapata, Huerta escaped to Spain, when he tried to come back, he was arrested in the US and died in jail. Venustiano Carranza became president, but Zapata and Villa fought him (a lot of changing sides, huh?), he was elected president again in 1917 and made the Constitution of 1917 (which is the present Constitution of México).\n\nCarranza killed Zapata in 1919, Álvaro Obregón and Plutarco Elías Calles raised against Carranza (another side change) and killed Carranza in 1920, new elections were celebrated and Obregón was declared president. At that point there were still scattered battlers, according to some records, some people didn’t even know why or who they were fighting. Since the new Constitution declared the full separation of church and state, including in education, a new war started in 1926, the so called “Guerra Cristera”, which was basically a war between Catholic Church supporters and the laic government. This war ended around 1929.\n\nSo, for some, the revolution ended in 1920, with Carranza’s dead. For others it ended with la Guerra Cristera in 1929, for others it ended with Cárdenas taking power as president in 1934 and ultimately, for others, the revolution hasn’t ended yet.
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Pershing was an officer in the old army during the Spanish-American war and lead the punative but largley unsuccessful invasion of nothern Mexico.
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Since your all more or less brainless (or just hate digging up the facts).\n\nyesterday was a day without an immigrant, not an illegal.\n\nCinco (not Cinque, thats French) de Mayo is the 1862 Battle of Puebla where the Mexicans said Goodbye to the French Army under the power of Napolean. It has nothing to do with raping women and celebrating a country that failed them, it has to do with winning an epic battle against what was the strongest army in the world.\n\nOh, and if Mexico had not beaten the French, the USA would have been split down the middle forming two countries to avoid the massive expanse of power that was happening, and the rest of the world forces feared for the other powers. A bit like today really.\n\nSo for once, you can say Thanks to the Mexicans, because they saved your arse.\n\nSo please stop being so dumb. Please. Your all embarrasing yourselves. And for your info, its not a day off either.\n\nAnd i find it totally ironic that after telling the Mexicans to bugger off home, you now want to celebrate theyre holiday. How stupid can you be?
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mexician and american war 158 years ago.  only i am not so sure you can invade, mexician troops were riding across the rio grande into texas, which had won its independence.\n\nat the same time, the folks in CA declared indpendence from mexico as well.
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i guess you don't know your MEXICAN HISTORY!\n\n\n\n\nThe 5th of May is not Mexican Independence Day, but it should be!Mexico declared its independence from mother Spain on midnight, the 15th of September, 1810.  And it took 11 years before the first Spanish soldiers were told and forced to leave Mexico. \n\nSo, why Cinco de Mayo?  And why should Americans savor this day as well?  Because 4,000 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City on the morning of May 5, 1862. \n\nThe French had landed in Mexico (along with Spanish and English troops) five months earlier on the pretext of collecting Mexican debts from the newly elected government of democratic President (and Indian) Benito Juarez.  The English and Spanish quickly made deals and left.  The French, however, had different ideas. \n\nUnder Emperor Napoleon III, who detested the United States, the French came to stay.  They brought a Hapsburg prince with them to rule the new Mexican empire.  His name was Maximilian; his wife, Carolota.  Napoleon's French Army had not been defeated in 50 years, and it invaded Mexico with the finest modern equipment and with a newly reconstituted Foreign Legion.  The French were not afraid of anyone, especially since the United States was embroiled in its own Civil War. \n\nThe French Army left the port of Vera Cruz to attack Mexico City to the west, as the French assumed that the Mexicans would give up should their capital fall to the enemy -- as European countries traditionally did. \n\nUnder the command of Texas-born General Zaragosa, (and the cavalry under the command of Colonel Porfirio Diaz, later to be Mexico's president and dictator), the Mexicans awaited.  Brightly dressed French Dragoons led the enemy columns.  The Mexican Army was less stylish. \n\nGeneral Zaragosa ordered Colonel Diaz to take his cavalry, the best in the world, out to the French flanks.  In response, the French did a most stupid thing; they sent their cavalry off to chase Diaz and his men, who proceeded to butcher them.  The remaining French infantrymen charged the Mexican defenders through sloppy mud from a thunderstorm and through hundreds of head of stampeding cattle stirred up by Indians armed only with machetes. \n\nWhen the battle was over, many French were killed or wounded and their cavalry was being chased by Diaz' superb horsemen miles away.  The Mexicans had won a great victory that kept Napoleon III from supplying the confederate rebels for another year, allowing the United States to build the greatest army the world had ever seen.  This grand army smashed the Confederates at Gettysburg just 14 months after the battle of Puebla, essentially ending the Civil War. \n\nUnion forces were then rushed to the Texas/Mexican border under General Phil Sheridan, who made sure that the Mexicans got all the weapons and ammunition they needed to expel the French.  American soldiers were discharged with their uniforms and rifles if they promised to join the Mexican Army to fight the French.  The American Legion of Honor marched in the Victory Parade in Mexico, City. \n\nIt 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 in 1862.  But who knows? \n\nIn gratitude, thousands of Mexicans crossed the border after Pearl Harbor to join the U.S. Armed Forces.  As recently as the Persian Gulf War, Mexicans flooded American consulates with phone calls, trying to join up and fight another war for America. \n\nMexicans, you see, never forget who their friends are, and neither do Americans.  That's why Cinco de Mayo is such a party -- A party that celebrates freedom and liberty.  There are two ideals which Mexicans and Americans have fought shoulder to shoulder to protect, ever since the 5th of May, 1862.  VIVA! el CINCO DE MAYO!!
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Atahualpa had an army of 80,000 well-trained, seasoned troops.  Pizarro had an army of about 200 men.  \nCome on guy, use the force.
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May 5th, the battle of Puebla, you can think of that day as the equivalent of El Alamo to the US.\n\nIn May 5th of 1862, general Ignacio Zaragoza beat the frenchs in Puebla. It's considered a great victory because the mexican army was smaller in number. Even though Zaragoza won the battle, the frenchs won the war. The archduke Maximiliano de Habsburgo took the throne in 1864. Later another civil war started and Maximiliano was executed.\n\nThere is no way it's the mexican independence day. Mexican independence was fully recognized in 1821, 41 years before the battle of Puebla. Mexican independence is celebrated in September 16th.
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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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Hannibal and Leonidas are EXCELLENT choices.\nCaesar is also a very good choice. What about Rommel? \nOk here goes;\nGreatest leader-Leonidas\nGreatest tactician-Hannibal Barca\nGreatest General(soldiers man)-Erwin Rommel\nGreatest overall-maybe Caesar, he had many of the qualities of all the above.
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Olmec, Izapa, Teotihuacan, Maya, Zapotec, Mixtec, Huaxtec, Purepecha,Toltec and Mexica (Aztecs), In 1519, the native civilizations of Mexico were invaded by Spanish troops numbering about 600 soldiers, who brought with them superior weaponry and old world diseases. Early Conquistadores was Hernán Cortés, who entered the country in 1519 from a native coastal town which he renamed "Puerto de la Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz" (today's Veracruz). Contrary to popular opinion, Spain did not conquer all of Mexico when Cortés conquered Tenochtitlan in 1521. It would take another two centuries after the Siege of Tenochtitlan before the Conquest of Mexico would be complete. The conquistadores (conquers) were just that! A bloody murdering army out to plunder.\n With slaughter…victory, they spread north and west to what today is Americas west coast.  How many natives in what we call America joined the above people in being victims of their slaughter?
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Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde (pron. IPA : [fran'θisko 'franko]; December 4, 1892 – November 20 (or possibly November 19 [*]) 1975), abbreviated Francisco Franco y Bahamonde and commonly known as Generalísimo Francisco Franco, was the Head of State of Spain in parts of the country from 1936 and in its entirety from 1939 until his death in 1975. He presided over the authoritarian government of the Spanish State following victory in the Spanish Civil War. From 1947, he was de facto regent of Spain. During his rule he was known officially as por la gracia de Dios, Caudillo de España y de la Cruzada, or "by the grace of God, the Leader of Spain and of the Crusade."
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Do you mean cinco de mayo?  It's when the Mexican army defeated the French at la Batalla de Puebla in 1862.
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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.