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CINCO DE MAYO: A SYMBOL OF MEXICAN RESISTANCE.
Cabello-Argandoña, Roberto, Luis Torres, Luis Leobardo Arroyo and Antonio Ríos-
Bustamante. Ser.: Nuestra Historia. 1997 178 pgs. ISBN: 0- 915745-43-7 Includes illus. and
biblio. $40.00 Price for class use $19.95
It probes the historical, political and international factors that led to the Battle of
Puebla of 1862 from pre-Independence to the War of In dependence, international conflicts,
War of Reform and the subsequent political and economic crisis of Mexico. It covers the
political crisis in Mexico and the United States, itself in the midst of a civil war, and
the somber prospects of foreign invasion in Mexico by three major world powers, Spain,
Britain and France. It examines the question of the foreign debt, the allied invasion in
Mexico in 1861, the subsequent departure of the Spanish and British forces and the extent
of the French Intervention. It provides a most detailed account of the forces and
activities of the French and Mexican sides, during the last three days before, the day of
and the day after the battle itself. Examines also the inspiring history of a triumphant
Chicano general, Ignacio Zaragoza, (1829-1862), born in a period of international
conflicts and forced to flee from his home as a youth because of the American settler's
revolt in Texas in 1836. It includes nine patriotic poems (Spanish-English parallel text)
written in California between 1864 and 1865 commemorating CINCO DE MAYO and published for
the first time in monographic form. Unquestionably, this is the definitive history book on
The Battle of Puebla on the Cinco de Mayo, 1862. |
