Hold the Mayo
May. 5th, 2005 11:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Oh yeah, and Happy Cinco de Mayo too, which is not Mexican Independence Day but rather a commemoration of when the Mexicans defeated the French (of Napoleon III) at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. Coincidentally, May 5 is also the death date of Napoleon I, who died in 1821.