Prelude to a thought experiment.
From HuffPo...
Cinco De Mayo commemorates the victory of 4,000 Mexican soldiers against 8,000 French forces on the morning of May 5, 1862 in Puebla, Mexico.
Mexico's victory had an impact for the United States because the French defeat denied Napolean III the opportunity to resupply the Confederate rebels for another year during the Civil War.
Think about that for a second.
What might the future have been if Mexico had lost that battle? Could the Confederates have won or would there have only (for lack of a better word) been more Union casualties? But if there had been more Union casualties how would that have impacted the future? Who might have died whose ancestors had a huge impact on the U.S. or the world? Cinco de Mayo changed the entire historical time line for the U.S. as well as that of the thousands (millions?) of descendents of those that may have perished during another year of war.
Maybe you wouldn't be here without Cinco de Mayo.
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