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[QUOTE="BobNOMAAMRooney%20nli:422465"]The French were only going to help the confederates if the Union started supplying the Mexican Republican forces with weapons. While the US Civil War was going on the Mexican Republicans led by President Benito Juarez fought the French as a guerilla force, maintaining control over a large part of Mexico despite being completely alone in their war. Once the confederate threat was dealth with the US started supplying the Mexicans with weapons, the French withdrew, and Juarez refused to grant Emperor Maximillian a pardon. Cinco de Mayo is such a big deal because the victory at Puebla at the beginning of the war against the French showed that the Mexican people were capable of defeating a force which had not lost a battle in something like 30 years without outside aid. The French would come back and beat the Mexicans at Puebla, take control of Mexico City and install Austrian aristocrat Maximillan Hapsburg as Mexican Emperor, but the morale boast of beating the French on May 5th would carry Mexicans through three years of war without the U.S.'s aid.[/QUOTE]
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