The annual celebration traces its origins back to when France invaded Mexico
The short version of the story is pretty straightforward, as TIME explained in 1941:
Basically, the day is sacrosanct because it’s when Mexican forces pulled off a David-over-Goliath victory. The answer to that question involves generations’ worth of complicated international relations. For decades, the U.S. had had a policy of keeping European colonial interests out of the Western hemisphere. But in the early 1860s, the U.S. was busy with the Civil War and Mexico was particularly vulnerable following the Mexican-American War in the 1840s and their own civil war, the
In France, Emperor Napoleon III wanted to expand his empire and settled on Mexico, which was already in debt to France. As explained by the Congressional Quarterly, Napoleon III had grand plans to dominate trade across the Atlantic and in Europe. He planned to conquer Mexico and put his Austrian allies in charge, and make an alliance with the Confederate States of America. That Mexico was refusing to pay its debt to France gave Napoleon III justification for an attack.
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