…But his imperial dreams would not be so easy to achieve. In Mexico, the French army suffered its first military defeat in 46 years,[39][40] on the Fifth of May, 1862 in Puebla when the Mexican army under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza defeated a much better-equipped French army. ...
Ignacio Zaragoza Segun (March 24,1829 September 8, 1862) was a general in the Mexican army, best known for defeating invading French forces at the Battle of ...
Ignacio Zaragoza is a city and seat of the municipality of Ignacio Zaragoza, in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. As of 2005, the town had a total population ...
