i Bienvenidos a la clase de español!
¡Hola! After spending two weeks in Brazil visiting my family I am glad to be back and see all the beautiful calendar pages made by our 4th, 5th, and 6th graders. They are displayed on the wall by the library and they represent our students birthday month. Feel free to come and check them out. They look great!
There is an important holiday approaching: El Cinco de Mayo. We are going to work on it in class and I would like to share with you the historical point of view of this event dated back in 1862.
“ El Cinco de Mayo is a uniquely Mexican-American holiday. It celebrates a change in the relationship between the United States and Mexico.
The end of the Mexican-American war in 1848, not only left a strained relationship between the two countries, but left Mexico deep in debt which grew through the years of civil war. Mexico borrowed money from European countries and eventually, these countries wanted their debts repaid. England and Spain entered the scene and left just as quickly, but France took advantage of their moment and decided to invade. As it turned out, Napoleon III was determined to conquer Mexico, set a Hapsburg prince on a Mexican throne, and rule over Mexico. El 5 de Mayo celebrates the defeat of the French Army by Mexican soldiers at the battle of Puebla. Some argue that from Mexico, Napoleon wanted to aid the Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War. Exactly what role the French defeat at Puebla played in the U.S. Civil War is debatable, but if the French had supplied the confederacy more actively, the war could have been longer, harder and much bloodier.
When the Mexican Army defeated the first invading battalion they were greatly outnumbered and faced with a technologically superior force making the triumph all the greater; the reason it is celebrated today. Ironically, this battle did not end of conflict between Mexico and France, but was just the beginning. French forces returned a year later in larger numbers and took control of Mexico placing the puppet Maximilian in charge of Mexico. The people of Mexico resisted and once the Civil War ended in the United States, President Lincoln sent General Sheridan to supply the Mexican resistance. Many U.S. soldiers were decommissioned from the Union Army in Texas to join the Mexican Army. A battalion of U.S. soldiers marched in the victory parade in Mexico City when Maximilian was finally defeated in 1868.
In honor of the aid provided by the United States, thousands of Mexicans crossed the border to join the U.S. military in the weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor.”
If you have any question, please don’t hesitate to contact me at 785-4504 or by email: jorgeanne_barley@fivetowns.net.
!Feliz El Cinco de Mayo everyone!
Source: http://bbq.about.com/od/seasonal/a/aa042906a.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srYi5eUZ1xI&list=FL4AMxbW4EIh9sbbNsdgt4cg&index=1&feature=plpp_video
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