Happy Cinco De Mayo

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Will be spending it at Spanish Wells - wonder if they are doing anything special for it! :)
 
It's a gringo "holiday" everywhere but Puebla, MX. Celebrates the victory of the Mexican army over the French there.
 
Well, no Cinco De Mayo here, but I did just order a $10 margarita at the marina bar.
 
You may try cinco de Mayonnaise with some french fries...

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It celebrates the defeat of the French rearguard as they were leaving Mexico. The unit was a French Foreign Legion contingent. They fought to the last two men. The Mexicans offered them surrender and safe passage to honor their bravery. The last two men demanded to march out under arms and bearing the body of their dead Sergeant or they would continue to fight. They did so. The Sergeants skeletal hand is carried to this day when the Legion marches in review.
 
It celebrates the defeat of the French rearguard as they were leaving Mexico. The unit was a French Foreign Legion contingent. They fought to the last two men. The Mexicans offered them surrender and safe passage to honor their bravery. The last two men demanded to march out under arms and bearing the body of their dead Sergeant or they would continue to fight. They did so. The Sergeants skeletal hand is carried to this day when the Legion marches in review.

No sir, nothing to do with Cinco De Mayo.
 
Capt. Danjou’s wooden hand. Danjou lost his hand in Crimea fighting the Russians. He commanded a small detachment at Camarón, Mexico in 1863. They were guarding the supply line to the French at Puebla and overwhelmed by Mexican forces. The story goes that a Mexican rancher recovered the wood hand from the pile of French dead and wound up later selling it to a French officer, who in turn returned it to the Legion.

The part about the Mexicans allowing the 2 surviving Legioaires to march out under arms is apparently true.
 
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