Happy Cinco De Mayo!

Today we Americans celebrate a holiday with lots of food, parades and parties of Mexico's independence from the French.  Mean while down in Mexico, it is just a minor national foot note.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/118001/Cinco-de-Mayo

Confusion with Mexican Independence Day

Many people outside Mexico mistakenly believe that Cinco de Mayo is a celebration of Mexican independence, which was declared more than 50 years before the Battle of Puebla. That event is commemorated on September 16, the anniversary of the revolutionary priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla’s famous “Grito de Dolores” (“Cry of Dolores”), a call to arms that amounted to a declaration of war against the Spanish colonial government in 1810.
 Today we American celebrate a Mexican-American "Kwanza" Holiday, as yet another excuse to get have parades, eat lots of spicy foods and get rip roaring drunk.