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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> James Northfolke <jamesnorthfolke@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> byzytym <byzytym@att.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> A Kindness Of Ravens <ravensfort@lists.ansteorra.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tuesday, May 5, 2009 8:21:00 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Ravensfort] Cinco de Mayo<BR></FONT><BR>Happy Kublai Khan Day!<BR><BR>Kublai (grandson of Genghis) elected Khan on 5 May 1260<BR><BR>Not sure what kind of beer to drink for that. Charles?<BR><BR>j<BR><BR><BR>byzytym wrote:<BR>> Cinco de Mayo salutations, y'all.<BR>> This celebration has always seemed a little strange to me.<BR>> It is a celebration of Mexico's victory over the French at the battle of Puebla on the 5th of May 1862.<BR>> The dirty little secret about this is the fact that on May
17th 1863 the French retook the city.<BR>> The French had invaded Mexico because it was not making payments on debts to its European lenders.<BR>> Not wanting to be cheated on good faith loans France did not discourage easily.<BR>> They went on to capture the Capital and on May 28th 1864 Maximilian was formally crowned Emperor of Mexico.<BR>> So May turned out to be a pretty good month for the French after all.<BR>> Unfortunately for France, the American Civil War came to an end the next year.<BR>> Had it not been for the U.S. freebees to the Mexican rebels most people in south Texas would now hear les sons du francais.<BR>> Being from Louisiana, I would not mind that at all.<BR>> Perhaps Mexico should pick another month and day to celebrate since the May 5th victory was so short lived.<BR>> As for me, today I will adorn myself with the fleur de lis and seek a sassy French beer.<BR>> I include wikipedia sites not so
much for the accuracy of their facts, but rather for the cool art work they usually use.<BR>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_intervention_in_Mexico<BR>> Paix,<BR>> MARIVS<BR>> "what shall it profit a man,<BR>> if he shall gain the whole world,<BR>> and lose his own soul ?"<BR>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Ravensfort mailing list<BR>> <A href="mailto:Ravensfort@lists.ansteorra.org" ymailto="mailto:Ravensfort@lists.ansteorra.org">Ravensfort@lists.ansteorra.org</A><BR>> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/ravensfort-ansteorra.org<BR>> <BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Ravensfort mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Ravensfort@lists.ansteorra.org" ymailto="mailto:Ravensfort@lists.ansteorra.org">Ravensfort@lists.ansteorra.org</A><BR><A
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