Today is Ocho de Mayo. Join me in lifting a toast to General Zachary "Old Rough-and-Ready!" Taylor and his troops for their victory defending Palo Alto ( in Texas) from a Mexican Army attack in 1846, in the first major battle of the Mexican-American War.
For more info, I recommend Today in History: May 8 at The Library of Congress,
and this Encyclopædia Britannica article on The Battle of Palo Alto.
Prior years' "What's New" entries are now here.
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