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After the victory at the Battle of Puebla, news had already spread to the West Coast of the U.S., where the event was memorialized by “juntas patrioticas mejicanas,” (Mexican patriotic assemblies), which were a group of about 14,000 Latinos who were networked throughout most of California, Nevada, Arizona, and Oregon, according to Hayes-Bautista. They celebrated the victory with parades, banquets, dances and speeches to boost morale among the Latinos in support of President Abraham Lincoln and the Union. For a short time after the Civil War, American and Mexican veterans would put on their uniforms and give speeches on Cinco De Mayo. guardianlv/2014/04/cinco-de-mayo-an-american-holiday-not-mexican-video/
Posted on: Mon, 05 May 2014 17:39:41 +0000

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