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thomasojii31 (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Pedro Infante, a great man! A wonderful actor! This song, "Fallaste Corazon" is such a beautiful song. The words are lovely and sad. Sung here by the great man himself!! *****"

From the Comments sectione: "roshanty18 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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estas si son canciones de verdad!!!!! "

From the page: "If outnumbered, outgunned Mexican troops hadn't defeated professional French invaders 135 years ago today, we might all be whistling "Dixie."

After five years of civil war, Mexico was bankrupt in 1861. The beleaguered government of President Benito Juarez owed staggering sums to France, Great Britain and Spain.

In 1823, President James Monroe had put Mexico and the rest of the Western Hemisphere off limits to European intervention.

However, the United States was unable to enforce the Monroe Doctrine after the Civil War erupted. French, British and Spanish forces landed in Mexico to make certain Mexico paid its debts.

The British and Spaniards soon withdrew after seeing the French emperor, Napoleon III, had more on his mind than money.

Napoleon landed an invasion force intent on marching north from the port of Veracruz, taking Mexico City and continuing into Texas to support Confederate troops in the American South.

France then could easily have convinced England to break the Union's blockade of Southern ports, freeing shipping lanes for supplies.

The outcome of the Civil War could have turned had not the crack French troops, many of them veterans of the Crimean War, not had to first capture the city of Puebla.

The French thought Puebla would be a cakewalk, that the city's power elite would welcome them with magnolia blossoms.

However, what the French found was a ragtag, ill-equipped but valiant army commanded by Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza de Seguin, who, ironically, was born in what today is Goliad, Texas, when the region was part of Mexico.

On May 5, 1862, the French attacked recklessly. Within two hours, the French troops had expended half of their ammunition.

The decisive maneuver of the day was led by future Mexican dictator but then a young Brig. Gen. Porfirio Diaz. The commander of the Second Brigade led a late afternoon counterattack that repelled a determined French assault on Zaragoza's right flank.

The dejected French soldiers retreated to await reinforcements..................................

Mexican writer Justo Sierra in "The Political Revolution of the Mexican People" wrote that the Cinco de Mayo victory gave the United States "an involuntary service ... of inestimable value."

The pressure the United States put on the French to withdraw inadvertently repaid Mexico for preventing a Franco-Confederacy alliance that could have altered the history of the entire hemisphere."

From the page: "Under the command of Texas-born General Zaragosa, (and the cavalry under the command of Colonel Porfirio Diaz, later to be Mexico's president and dictator), the Mexicans awaited. Brightly dressed French Dragoons led the enemy columns. The Mexican Army was less stylish.

General Zaragosa ordered Colonel Diaz to take his cavalry, the best in the world, out to the French flanks. In response, the French did a most stupid thing; they sent their cavalry off to chase Diaz and his men, who proceeded to butcher them. The remaining French infantrymen charged the Mexican defenders through sloppy mud from a thunderstorm and through hundreds of head of stampeding cattle stirred up by Indians armed only with machetes.

When the battle was over, many French were killed or wounded and their cavalry was being chased by Diaz' superb horsemen miles away. The Mexicans had won a great victory that kept Napoleon III from supplying the confederate rebels for another year, allowing the United States to build the greatest army the world had ever seen. This grand army smashed the Confederates at Gettysburg just 14 months after the battle of Puebla, essentially ending the Civil War.

Union forces were then rushed to the Texas/Mexican border under General Phil Sheridan, who made sure that the Mexicans got all the weapons and ammunition they needed to expel the French. American soldiers were discharged with their uniforms and rifles if they promised to join the Mexican Army to fight the French. The American Legion of Honor marched in the Victory Parade in Mexico, City.

It might be a historical stretch to credit the survival of the United States to those brave 4,000 Mexicans who faced an army twice as large in 1862. But who knows?"

From the page: "a usted le debemos muchas "gracias" don Jose

Descanse en paz "

From the page: "soulroses (4 days ago)

estas son Las Mañanitas tradicionales, las de Pedro Infante "