The first Cinco de Mayo celebration in Texas was held in 1867 in the small border community of San Ygnacio, as documented by Américo Paredes in his 1995 book A Texas-Mexican Cancionero: Folksongs ...

At the Battle of San Jacinto, Texas, revolutionaries faced Mexican Gen. Santa Anna and his men in a fight that not only secured Texas independence but lived on in glory. Nearly 200 years later ...