Mexcio

Cinco de Mayo {Fifth of May} is a popular celebration in the Mexican American communinty. Cinco de Mayo commemorates a Mexican victory at the Battle of Puebla on May 5,1862, in which an outnumbered Mexican force defeated a french army attempting to install the Austrian Archduke Maximilian as Emperor of Mexico. Although the Fredonians were not successful,by the 1830's the population of Mexican Texas included many immigrants from the United States. These Anglo-American coloists were angry over Mexican attempts to deny autonomy to Texas and were not happy with a coloization law that prevented immigration from the Unit...