What is Cinco de Mayo? The origin and why is is celebrated?

Question

Just curious

Answer 1

Cinco de Mayo.
Cinco = Fourth
de = of
Mayo= May

The fourth of May. Like the U.S. July 4 (independence day)

The 5th of May is not Mexican Independence Day. Mexico declared its independence from mother Spain on midnight, the 15th of September, 1810. And it took 11 years before the first Spanish soldiers were told and forced to leave Mexico.

May 5th is the day 4,000 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City on the morning of May 5, 1862.

Answer 2

The holiday is not the same as July 4th because it's not Independence Day. Cinco de Mayo is the celebration of Mexican victory over France.

Answer 3

Most people don't know that back in 1912, Hellmann's mayonnaise was manufactured in England.

In fact, the Titanic was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after its stop in New York. This would have been the largest single shipment of mayonnaise ever delivered to Mexico. but as we know, the great ship did not make it to New York. The ship hit an iceberg and sank, and the cargo was forever lost.

The people of Mexico, who were crazy about mayonnaise, and were eagerly awaiting its delivery, were disconsolate at the loss.

Their anguish was so great, that they declared a National Day of Mourning, which they still observe to this day.

The National Day of Mourning occurs each year on May 5th and is known now, of course, as Sinko de Mayo.

Answer 4

Cinco de mayo is the 5th of may and when the mexicanshave become liberated or some shyt like that my friend told me she is mexican

Answer 5

is that susan person retarded?
cinco=5, not 4, sorry honey
the fifth of may was when the mexicans defeated napoleon

Answer 6

It's the Mexican Independence Day. And it's the Fifth of May.

http://www.vivacincodemayo.org/history.htm

Answer 7

Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for "5th of would") is a close-by holiday in Mexico, regularly celebrated interior the state of Puebla. it isn't any longer an necessary federal holiday.[a million][2][3][4][5] the holiday commemorates an preliminary victory of Mexican forces led via frequently used Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín over French forces interior the conflict of Puebla on would 5, 1862. The date is asserted interior the US and different places around the globe as a occasion of Mexican background and delight. a uncomplicated false impression interior the US is that Cinco de Mayo is Mexico's Independence Day; Mexico's Independence Day is definitely September sixteen (dieciséis de septiembre in Spanish), that's the main severe national patriotic holiday in Mexico. -------SO quite, a lot of human beings have been given all of it incorrect. Celebrating Cinco De Mayo is like individuals celebrating the Boston Tea occasion.