MikeMike
Registered user
Hi,
Greetings from Veracruz, Mexico.
I usually pass this particular battle site when riding to the Cordoba/Fortin/Orizaba region to go deeper into the Sierra Negra Grande.
There is not a lot there, every year they dress it up a little when the memorial day draws near and the French dignitaries, Legionnaires, the odd Mexican politician or two, and assorted hangers on make their yearly pilgrimage.
The actual battle site is closer to where the railway runs through the little town, and the house where the room to room and then hand to hand combat occurred was torn down when the railway was put through more than a century or so ago.
If you google the battle you will get some interesting reading, there is also a decent book about it written some time ago and available on Kindle.
There is a lot of significant Legion history, a shame it is not the site of a museum or something more.
Different spellings for the same battle (Camerone, Camaron, Camarone, etc...)
Here's a link to some photos (a series of 5 in total marked Camarone):
http://s1169.photobucket.com/albums/r519/MikeMikeVeracruz/
Greetings from Veracruz, Mexico.
I usually pass this particular battle site when riding to the Cordoba/Fortin/Orizaba region to go deeper into the Sierra Negra Grande.
There is not a lot there, every year they dress it up a little when the memorial day draws near and the French dignitaries, Legionnaires, the odd Mexican politician or two, and assorted hangers on make their yearly pilgrimage.
The actual battle site is closer to where the railway runs through the little town, and the house where the room to room and then hand to hand combat occurred was torn down when the railway was put through more than a century or so ago.
If you google the battle you will get some interesting reading, there is also a decent book about it written some time ago and available on Kindle.
There is a lot of significant Legion history, a shame it is not the site of a museum or something more.
Different spellings for the same battle (Camerone, Camaron, Camarone, etc...)
Here's a link to some photos (a series of 5 in total marked Camarone):
http://s1169.photobucket.com/albums/r519/MikeMikeVeracruz/