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smead ([personal profile] smead) wrote2005-05-05 11:01 am

Hold the Mayo

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.