Cinco de Mayo IS NOT about Mexican independence. Cinco de Mayo commemorates the Battle of Puebla - just one battle in a story involving the Mexican civil war (Reform War), the American civil war, a coup, Napoleon III, Archduke Maximilian, and France's last-ditch effort to colonize the Americas. 

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