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His desire was to be a priest but his destiny was to be a general. Zaragoza's short life was filled with a series of battles but May 5, 1862 made him a hero forever.
Xalapa is nothing like Cancun, Cabo San Lucas or Mazatlan, and that's a good thing. A famed museum and cobblestone streets offer visitors a look at colonial Mexico.
In one of history's more unlikely victories, a force of 4,500 Mexican soldiers soundly defeated 6,000 better-trained, better-equipped Frenchmen at Puebla in 1862.
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