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What Happened in California?
Around the time of civil war, anmphatic, those two are linked. Latinos here in california formed spanish speaking units of united states cavalry. In arizona and new mexico, latinos supported lincoln from day one of the american war. The french thought it was over, until they had to go through the battle of the town of puebla,. Three weeks later, news arrived here, and it was published in the sp Spanish lagers newspapers that were distributed throughout the state. It was like a streak of lightning in the middle of a dark night. We won a big battle, decisively.
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