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Today in History – May 5

1862 – Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín defeats the invading French forces at the Battle of Puebla.

Ignacio Zaragoza

1864 – The Battle of the Wilderness, the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, is fought.

Site of the Battle of the Wilderness (May 5 – 7, 1864)