>>344826It was May 5, 1945. World War II in Europe was nearing its end. Hitler had faked his death less than a week ago and was fleeing Europe to Argentina through Spain. Generalissimo Paco Peru El Salvador de la Costa Rica Chihuahua, the grandson of the wife of Antonio López de Santa Anna, was head of Mexico's armed forces. Collectively called the Tequila Cavalry, General Chihuahua and his forces were tasked to wipe out the invading Nazis planning to attack the United States. At Fortress Himmlergarde on the Yucatan Peninsula, the valiant Mexican forces attacked their former German allies (who had been stationed in Mexico since the Zimmerman Telegram Incident of World War I, also known as the Mexican-Reich Treaty of Friendship).
With only seventy bottles of tequila, the Mexicans overran the Nazi weather station Himmlergarde in a few hours. The three war criminals, believed to be SS officers who were weaponizing hurricanes to attack the United States' southern coast, fled into the jungles of the Yucatan, likely drawn southward by Hitler's call to establish a Fourth Reich. Regardless, May 5 was to be celebrated by the Mexican people as a great military victory and their contribution to the greatest war known to man. Because following the battle, Nazi German forces began surrendering across Europe, signaling their apparent fear of Mexico. Cinco de Mayo is now the most celebrated and revered of Mexican holidays, celebrated in the United States for the Mexican's fierce defiance against a tyrannical threat to save another nation and celebrated in Mexico as the reaffirmation of Mexican military prestige. The world would come to thank Mexico, General Chihuahua and the Tequila Cavalry for their upstanding courage in the face of evil.
God bless the Mexican Army.
