Cinco de Mayo

Hola amigos!! As you should know, today is CINCO DE MAYO!! It's an important holiday in Mexico, and since I'm in Spanish, I've learned about it, and how ALL THESE YEARS WHAT I'VE LEARNED ABOUT IT IS WRONG!! D:

So here's the jist: ever since like, elementary school, we've all though that Cinco de Mayo was a holiday celebrating Mexican independence from the French, correct?

WRONG. After this holiday, Mexico went back into being RULED by the French. However, it's still an important holiday, because it's like the traditional story of the underdogs beating the...werewolves. O_O

Ok. So here's the TRUE story as told to me by my very enthusiastic Spanish teacher:

So it's 1862. Mexico's in debt to France, and they can't pay them back. And since the U.S. is in the Civil War, France thought that this was a great opportunity to go invade Mexico and take over. So they went to Mexico, with like...8,000 troops or something, and the discussion went something like this:

FRANCE: Give us back our money!!
MEXICO: But but you said our deadline was 5 months from now!!
FRANCE: Yeah, well, too bad. So here's the deal: you give us what you owe back now, or we get control of Mexico. Ok?
MEXICO: But but--
FRANCE: OK THEN, let's go explore and invade our new territory!

All right so it didn't happen exactly like that, but the facts and the 5 months thing is all correct.

Ok, then these like..Mexican rebels find out, and they decide that they have to go beat up these French wussies and regain their country. So with 4,000 rebels, they went to go fight the French. An important part of this battle is that the French were like...the best army right now, and they haven't lost for like 50 years, and so they were all over-confident and organized and very orderly about the way they fight and stuff. So these Mexican rebels caused a diversion, and all the French marched towards the diversion (you'd think they'd know what was happening, after all those battles...).

While they were preoccupied, the Mexican rebels then attacked and DEFEATED the French, who had TWICE as many troops. This historical event is know as the Battle of Puebla, or something like that, and it happened on May 5th, 1862, or CINCO DE MAYO. (See? It all makes sense now.)

Ok, so the Mexican rebels won, and they're like celebrating. But then France goes back with more troops, and takes control over Mexico and becomes their ruler for 3 more years. lol, so it's like a bittersweet but mostly bitter moment.

Alrighty, now that you've been enlightened, you can go tell all the people that THINK they know about Cinco de Mayo but really DON'T that they're WROONG. See, it could be like:

"Guess what? Today's Mexican Independence Day!"
"Uh, actually, no it's not. It's the Battle of Puebla day. And I'm so sorry that you've been stuck being stupid your whole life, but that doesn't mean you can go around and annoy people who know way more than you do, ok? Thanks. Maybe you've learned something today! :D"

Haha just kidding, don't go to someone and actually say that. You could get seriously hurt. Anyways, sorry if I bored you (those of you who actually READ this thing) with a history lesson that you probably already learned today, but since this IS my blog..of randomness, and this was random, so I have an excuse. :P Anyways, have a great day. life. whatever.

And yes, I just told you what to do. :P LOSERR!!