!Viva Zapata!
Even though the Battle of Puebla was fought a full 17 years before Zapata was born, we here at The Dapper Lad are very fuzzy on our Mexican history (largely because we’d come to Latin American History after a couple of shots of mezcal) and therefore still believe that yelling “!Viva Zapata! Viva la Revolucion!” is the 2nd best way to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Of course the best way is to chug a bottle of tequila and then smash up the local French bistro with a machete. Suck it Napoleon III!
Zapata’s mustache would shoot Marlon Brandon’s mustache’s imitation of Zapata’s mustache in the face if it was given the opportunity.
Wikipedia’s entry on the Battle of Puebla repeatedly refers to it as a moral victory for the Mexicans, which is sort of amusing because they won the actual battle. Moral victories are defined on wikipedia as follows: “A moral victory occurs when a person, team, army or other group loses a confrontation, and yet achieves some other moral gain. This gain might be unrelated to the confrontation in question, and the gain is often considerably less than what would have been accomplished if an actual victory had been achieved. “ In addition to actually winning the battle, the Mexicans can be said to have won a morale victory, but that just sounds stupid.
