A Collection of Noteworthy Occurrences in Cajun History
Mexico had an 11-year civil war for independence from Spain.
After the Franco-Prussian war, a Hapsburg prince of Vienna was declared emperor Maximilian de Mexico. He invented the mariachi bands that give Mexicans their national image, and he built the imperial Palacio with fountains at Ciudad de Mexico. He was assassinated by the rebel leader Bénito Juarez, who gave the emperor a bogus military court-martial trial. Empress Carolina tried to plea for help from Napoleon III but was told nothing could be done, the emperor was shot in the head with a pistol.
The French Foreign Legion had their famous scrimmages at Mexico when Napoleon III demanded Bénito Juarez pays his debts to the U.N. The principal battle was at the town of Cameron-y-Tejada in Puebla, 160 legionnaires were escorting a supply train when 2,000 Mexican cavalrymen surrounded them and attacked. The Legion fought an 11-hour retreat to a hacienda where they made their last stand and fell. Another significant scrimmage occurred in the north near Guadeloupe and Laredo, where legionnaires found an old French canon and ammunition abandoned in a farmer's barn. As the legionnaires attempted to take the cannon back, the farmer came out of his home shooting, scaring the legionnaires into the mountains.
General Garza's famous quote, "I will rather die on my feet than live on my knees."
Don Poncho Villa was the Mexican duke of Chihuahua who joined the rebels and helped place Emilio Zapata in power. Pancho Villa with his banditos was famous for cutting the ears off American 'gringos' so to warn other 'gringos' not to go to Mexico.
Charros were Mexican revolutionary women-at-arms.
The state of Washington was once the Spanish state of Tacoma and the full name of California is Alto-California, with Baja California still a state of Mexico.
The U.S.-Spanish war concluded that the U.S. keeps the claims to the southwestern states that Santa Anna sold to the U.S. The cause of the war was an explosion aboard a U.S. Navy ship docked at the Cuban harbor of Guantanamo Bay. U.S. president led the 'Rough-Riders' invasion across Cuba that utilized cavalry and observation balloons. Puerto Rico, Guam, the Canary Islands, and the Philippines were won by the U.S.
Texas was originally seven Spanish provenances, a few of the names were Nueces, Velasco, Brazoria, and Santa Fe.
Another annexation consolidated the state of Texas to the states of Nueva Mexico and Colorado.
The Alamo chapel as it stands today was rebuilt from the rubble left after the battle in 1836.
La Revolution lasted until the mid-1920s, and ultimately Mexico lost.
Mexico has the oldest American university, built in the 1550s.
Santeria is a Mexican religion.
Mexico maintains exclusive rights to make tequila. It is made from the agave cactus.
The Grand Canyon extends into Mexico, where it branches into over 200 canyons 4 times the size of the U.S. canyon.
Fort San Augustine Florida is the oldest city in North America built in the 1550s.
The town of St. Francisville Louisiana was once the seat of government for West Florida.
The governments of Spanish America are chartered on the Spanish-Visigoth constitution Siéte Partidas written by king Alfonso the Wise of Castille.
Later investigations proved the explosion at Guantanamo Bay was from U.S. sailors smoking in the fuel room of the ship that exploded, it wasn't a Spanish bombing so the war was a conspiracy to take Spanish land sold by Mexican rebels.
The Cuban Revolution led by Fidel and Raoul Castro and the Argentine doctor-turned-rebel Ché Geverra was supported and armed by communist Russia so to overthrow the U.S.-made government led by Bautista. Cuban deflects were trained in the U.S. and in Central America so to make a coup-d’état on the Castros. The U.S. lost the attempted invasion of the Bay of Pigs after two U.S. pilots were shot down. Strict trade embargoes have left Cuba without any new U.S. imports since 1956.
Napoléon's painter Jacques Louis David also painted South American rebel Simon de Bolivar, both portraits of the generals mounted on a rearing horse overlooking mountain passes.
The Central and South American gypsy-Jews known as jarochos, llaneros, and gauchos are the rebels who started the Colombian, Central-American, Mexican, and Chilean revolutions. They are also found in Corsica and Sardinia.
The gaucho style of horse-riding is to slap one’s hat on the horse's tail, making it drag its rear close to the ground as it runs.
Central and South America have been through over a hundred civil wars fomented by over-zealous noblemen who greedily seized as much ranch land and as many companies as possible. Their gypsy-gaucho employees live off the land, eat only beans and what they slaughter in the field, and work for nothing but their keep.
The words 'ranch' and 'rancher' originate from Spanish 'rancho' and 'ranchero'.
The Spanish Foreign Legion was first made from the French Foreign Legion during the Spanish Carlist rebellion when the king of Spain died and left his crown to his wife Maria Cristina and her daughter Isabella II, preventing the rightful succession to the throne of their cousin don Carlos de Borbon. The supporters of Maria Cristina were called cristinos and the supporters of don Carlos were called the carlists.
The Spanish Foreign Legion disbanded when Isabella took the crown because she was so slutty that the soldiers were disgusted by her, so they deserted. Later just before WW II during the Spanish Civil War to rid Africanists, the French Foreign Legion under generalismo Francisco Franco Bahamonde was again divided into the Spanish Foreign Legion, named el tercio extrajero. Together la Legion and el tercio killed off the Saharan Riff tribe.
The motto of tercio extranjero is, 'legionarios a luchar, legionarios a mourir'.
The Mexican general known as Santa Anna was a Jew of mixed origins from Spain, France, Portugal, a gypsy household, and the Aragonese-Basque country of Galicia. His entire name is Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna-y-LeBron. Though his family was noble, he was not baptized with the noble distinguishment of 'de', rather, he gained his letters of notoriety when he enlisted in the Spanish royal regiment of Realistas del Camino Real. He then deflected to the rebel army of 3 Guarantees and conspired with other revolutionary factions including the Scottish Freemason Rites of Yorks. He was Mexico's president an estimated 9-11 times and on a few occasions, he was ousted by other revolutionaries. He fought to liberate his homestead of Veracruz, so to defend the Texas Alamo and he lost his leg fighting the French Pastry War, caused when France demanded Mexico pay its debts for French bakeries destroyed by riots. He fought many federalists civil wars that were mostly lost. He also lost the U.S.-Mexican war and sold half of Mexico to U.S. president Polk.
Mexicans do not admire their dictator Santa Anna, so there have never been any monuments nor calles (roads) named for him.
In Central America, the Spanish, Portuguese, and British put together many slaves of different origins from India, Tibet, Nepal, Philippines, and Africa who they put together with natives from North and South America.
The Spanish and Portuguese did not bring women, instead, they had a policy of domination, so took slave women for their wives. Many aristocrats practiced polygamy, so had several slave wives. Because the male lineage has the right to titles, the mix-blood mestizo and creole children who had European fathers were able to keep the aristocratic titles and used their authority to wage several rebellions and civil wars that gave the foreign slaves rights of their own.
The countries of Belize and Honduras are British-ruled and are the only countries to export narcotics that supply the world with cocaine and cannabis-hemp. The populations of these countries are former Hindu slaves bought by the English company East India Inc.
Ecuador is ruled by the Netherlands, which is co-ruled by Spain and France. The population is mostly native, Dutch, and Spanish. The Dutch there owns large chocolate companies.
British once had the small amazonian countries of Guyana and Suriname but neglected the claim that France sieged. The capital of French Guiana is Cayenne, where the Eurospace launch is at.
Since WW II Colombia has had the Nazi-made Fuerza Armada Revolutionara de Colombia (FARQ) / Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which grow and guard the fields where narcotics are grown and processed.
Guatemala had a 36-year civil war from 1960-1996 with 250,000 Mayan casualties, 1 million displaced, 640 villages destroyed and thousands of women raped.
The explorer Christopher Columbus set sail from Seville, Spain aboard the ships Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria. He was a Sicilian from the Colombo family, and his Spanish spelling is Cristobol Colona. When he landed and named the Isla de Hispaniola he had the fort of Santo Domingo built and left men, on his return, he found they had been killed by the natives, so Spain declared war.
Children's rhyme, 'In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.'
Other explorers include Pizarro and Amerigo Vespucci of Italy, Magellan of Portugal, Vasco de Gama, Hernando Cortez, Coronado, DeSoto and Ponce de Leon of Spain; Jacques Cartier, Champlain, LaSalle, and Count Cadillac of France.
Mexico has had a lot of royalty. The Spanish grandees Bernardo de Galvez and his son the viceroy Bernardo de Galzez Segundo ruled Florida to California to Central America. One of their mansions is still at Galveston Island, Texas, on the main street known as the Galveston Strait. Also were Mexican emperor Augustin de Iturbide and the archduke-emperor Ferdinand Maximilian von Hapsburg de Mexico. Colombia had the archbishop and viceroy Caballero-y-Gongora.
During Napoleon's Revolution Dom Pedro de Bourbon, the king of Portugal, fled to Brazil with all the royal court and treasury. After the Revolution, he returned to Portugal and left his son Dom Jao to rule alone. In the favor of the Brasilianos, he peacefully agreed to declare Brazil an independent Bourbon kingdom. The Bourbons still rule today and the Brazilian governor is prince Lorenzo de Medicis.
Napoléonic créole general Simon de Bolivar was of noble birth and liberated the countries of Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. The name of the country of Bolivia was made from his name Bolivar.
On 1 July 1823 Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica declared independence from Mexico and became the United Provinces of Central America.
The central and south American revolutionists had no national pride and often abandoned their civil war causes. Toward the end of his life, Bolivar wrote: 'You know that I have been in the position of power for twenty years, and from these, have only been able to draw a few uncertain conclusions, 1.) America is ungovernable for us; 2.) He who serves in a revolution plows the sea; 3.) The only thing you can do in America is to immigrate; 4.) This country [Gran Colombia] will fall infallibly into the hands of a wild multitude, and then go on to be governed by minor and imperceptible tyrants of all races and colors... 5.) ...devoured by all possible crimes and extinguished by their ferocity, the Europeans will not lower themselves to conquer us. 6.) If it were possible for a part of the world to return to its original state of primitive chaos, this would be the last period of history in America.
The small Texas town of Port Bolivar is named for Simone De Bolivar
By the Bourbon Family Compact, Louisiana was ceded to Spain from France in 1762, and Cajuns became Spanish citizens. French prime minister de Choiseul did the legislation of the cession, which caused a riot in New Orleans.
The Spanish Treaty of San Ildefonso granted Louisiana to Napoléon and had a rescission so that the agreement would cancel if Napoléon attempted to sell it. He did however sell the land as the Louisiana Purchase to the United States.
At one time, Louisiana and all the gulf coast were called a part of the Caribbean. The word Caribbean has two meanings, one for the native Caraibes who Columbus discovered and warred, and the other meaning is for shotgun. The Caribbean limits are from the Mexican Yucatan peninsula to the Florida peninsula and include the islands France calls Les Antilles.
