Cinco de Mayo

Cinco De Mayo is celebrated because it’s the day the Mexican Army won against France. Cinco De Mayo is a celebration day for the Mexican army’s victory over Napoleon's III’s French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. Mexico and The French Forces were at war because Mexico refused to pay its foreign debt. Also Emperor Napoleon III wanted to expand his empire in the Latin America.

Cinco de Mayo and Mexico’s Independence Day are two different things. A difference these days have is that Mexico's Independence Day marks the day that they began war against Spain. The reason they went to war was for Mexico's Independence. This war was called Mexico’s War of Independence. The war for Cinco De Mayo is called The Battle of Puebla.