The 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.

Under 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.

The 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.

Under 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.

General 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.

When 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.

Union 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.

www.vivacincodemayo.org . . .

Looks like you frogs should restrict your military adventures to unarmed civilians. Oh, I'm sorry, that is your policy.

www.fuckfrance.com . . .

I smell messican joooo bull shit!

(hello, Batta)

1.Cinco de Mayo is not even a big deal in messico at all.

2. The frogs weren't "defeated" but were crushed when they got between the messicans and the U.S. border.

Mexicans kick the shit out of the arrogant back stabbing french. How wonderful is that? Viva Cinco De Mayo!

FUCK france!

Yeah yeah, Mexicans have only 2 military victories in their history : Cinco de mayo and Alamo.


France has... 109 victories!

Enjoy!

www.militaryfactory.com . . .

Frogs were and are cowards… Even the "franch" légionnaires are cowards and sheep rapists!
Fuck fwanç!

the French assumed that the Mexicans would give up should their capital fall to the enemy -- as European countries traditionally did.

Tell that to Frederick the Great. In the Seven Years' War, he twice lost Berlin to his enemies, but rallied to win the war anyway.

For that matter, the Froggies should know better. They captured Madrid in the Peninsular War, but the Spaniards fought on. They captured Moscow in 1812 (yes, I know St. Petersburg was the "official" capital then, but Tsars were still crowned in Moscow), but the Russians fought on.

This grand army smashed the Confederates at Gettysburg just 14 months after the battle of Puebla, essentially ending the Civil War.

I guess that's why 10,000 Confederate soldiers were fighting inside the city limits of Washington one year and nine days after the Battle of Gettysburg ended. I love any article that tells the tale of a French defeat, but get your facts straight.

Napoleon's French Army had not been defeated in 50 years

Who had it fought in 50 years? It's easy to be undefeated in war when you never fight.

It's not true, anyway. The French Army was defeated several times in Algeria by Abd al-Qadir during the 1830s and 1840s.

I love "news" from 146 years ago.

Is there a frigging moderator here?

Nearly two hundred years later, the Fwench and their Suckcialist system is preparing for another humiliating defeat:

Fwance's national GDP: 2.067 Trillion Dollars
Mexico's national GDP: 1.353 Trillion Dollars

Franch is a fucking thirld world country, that 200 years before was a world power but still got the shit kicked out of by a thirld world country.

Viva Cinco De Mayo!!!

The fact they got slapped around by taco-slinging untrained soldiers makes sipping a cold Corona not just enjoyable, but plain fucking funny, worthy of Comedy Central news or a South Park Episode

OMG!!! They've Killed Kenny... you bastards!!!

Who had it fought in 50 years? It's easy to be undefeated in war when you never fight.

your gross ignorance of military history is outstanding.

Never heard of the Crimean war against Russia? Nor the Campaign of Italy against the Austrians?

Get lost asswipe.

Some Mexican peasants and cows kick the living shit out of the french "army"......to fucking hilarious! Viva Cinco De Mayo!

FUCK france!

please, people, wait May 17th to celebrate...

5000 mexicans against 6000 french. The mexicans holding the fortress. No foreign legion at that point, small expeditionary force, no Hapsburg at that point.

En attendant, dans une dizaine de jours, c'est Camerone!


Btw, yes, we French celebrate our defeats (Waterloo, Trafalgar, Puebla...) for the simple reason that, if we were to celebrate our victories, we would have no rest.

WilyB wrote:

I love "news" from 146 years ago.

Is there a frigging moderator here?

Try washing those grapes down with some good tequila.

I love "news" from 146 years ago.
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This led me to wonder: how many nations have holidays celebrating French defeats?

no shit, even mexicans kicked frogs..

yep, the mexicans kicked the asses of only two nations: France. Texas. Don't you see a pattern here?

Of course, in both cases, it ended with a tremendous defeat for the mexicans.

Yeah yeah, Mexicans have only 2 military victories in their history : Cinco de mayo and Alamo.


France has... 109 victories!

Enjoy!

Have you got the slightest idea how bad you just owned yourself?

Repeat with me... Mexico ONLY HAS TWO VICTORIES

ONE-OF-THEM-AGAINST-THE-FWENCH

You're like a rape victim that carries his own tube of vaseline

yep, the mexicans kicked the asses of only two nations: France. Texas. Don't you see a pattern here?

....muhad, I don't know what Mexican comic books you are getting your history from, but I suggest you look up the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836. ... Mexicans won several skirmishes when the Texans were hoplessly outnumbered, as at the Alamo, but Mexico NEVER defeated the Republic of Texas. .... and the Texas navy repeatedly kicked the shit out of the Mexican navy. .... At the Battle of Campeche in 1843 two Texas sailing ships-of-war defeated nine Mexican ships, three of which were steam powered.

but Mexico NEVER defeated the Republic of Texas...

Indeed. Mexicans have never defeated Texas. Through the years, they have always wanted to expand north of the border, only to meet pissed off texans who think Mexicans belong in Mexico

As for the battle of El Alamo, what the fwench would like to point out is that it was a defeat, when actually the Battle of El Alamo is still remembered as the turning point of the Texan revolution. The Texans held to the last man ( when was the last time the fwench cowards have ever done this? ), allowing after a 13 day siege, Sam Houston to gather troops and supplies.

The Mexicans got the hint they were screwing around with the wrong people when they went from El Alamo to fight at San Jacinto. By then, Houston had built up his army and his supplies, and the battle of San Jacinto left the Mexicans with no taste for battle against Texas.

That pretty much leaves the story at the point where the Mexicans only have ONE military victory . They kicked the shit out of the Fwench

"The United States, embroiled in its own conflict, supported the Republican Mexican forces with much of its arms and equipment, including the very uniforms and weapons used by the Union Army in the Civil War"



usa has always followed only its interests. France was ruined for your independance and you support the mexicanos.

Hope you will be completely flooded by mexicans. that spanish will become your official language.

Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!

On Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836, during the Texas Revolution, the Goliad massacre occurred when General Antonio López de Santa Anna ordered the Mexican army to execute Colonel James Fannin and 341 of his men, who had surrendered after the Battle of Coleto.


fwance is the only country that has ever lost a war with Mexico.

what is the texas revolution ?
you started to make hamburgers with your long horn ?

muhad_eezbaq wrote:

yep, the mexicans kicked the asses of only two nations: France. Texas. Don't you see a pattern here?

Of course, in both cases, it ended with a tremendous defeat for the mexicans.

If France won it's war with Mexico, then why did you let the Mexicans shoot Maximilian?

simplefrench wrote:

France was ruined for your independance and you support the mexicanos.

Now we support the Turks and the Albanians in their bid to join the European Caliphate....um..I mean the European Union.

ya got it a little bit wrong here,

""the French did a most stupid thing;"".... damn right--

they drank the water
and that's why it was called at first
stINko de mayo.

and why the fWench were defeated.

This grand army smashed the Confederates at Gettysburg just 14 months after the battle of Puebla, essentially ending the Civil War.

I beg to differ. The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point, it's true, but there was still the bloodiest part of the war to fight. Grant's Army of the Potomac hurled itself at the Confederates, from Wilderness to Petersburg. (The most horrific slaughter was at Cold Harbor.) It was during this campaign that Grant got the nickname "Unspeakable Slaughter Grant". Gettysburg didn't end the war by a long shot.