<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1ff8c6b1-c7f5-4ae4-8290-54cf789a97a2/2CC0FA34-2426-4C2D-9CF6-116CFE3D73B1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.mexonline.com/cinco.htm" href="http://www.mexonline.com/cinco.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.mexonline.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mexonline.com/cinco.htm"><center><table bgcolor="#3f9a5f" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" hspace="4" width="99%"><tbody><tr><td background="images/dir/mxo-title-back.jpg" height="30" valign="bottom"><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica" size="+2"> &nbsp;History of Cinco de Mayo</font> </td></tr></tbody></table></center><!-- END Title --> <table border="0" cellpadding="5"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p align="justify"><font face="arial, helvetica, modern"> <table bgcolor="#d8e2d8" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="602"><tbody><tr><td><table bgcolor="#eef7f1" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="600"><tbody><tr><td><font face="Arial" size="-1"> <font size="3"><b>Introduction</b></font> The holiday of Cinco De Mayo, <i>The 5th Of May</i>, commemorates the victory of the Mexican militia over the French army at The Battle Of Puebla in 1862. It is primarily a regional holiday celebrated in the Mexican state capital city of Puebla and throughout the state of Puebla, with some recognition in other parts of the Mexico, and especially in U.S. cities with a significant Mexican population. It is not, as many people think, <a href="http://www.mexonline.com/grito.htm"><b>Mexico's Independence Day</b></a>, which is actually September 16.</font></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2CC0FA34-2426-4C2D-9CF6-116CFE3D73B1/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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