Battle of Camerone

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/

Is'nt that the battle the Legion commemorate every, the 'Black Hand' or along these lines..

Yes, that is the one.
And also supposed to be the one where the never surrender and fight to the end concept was first put to the test. Wiki says the following:

"Capitaine Danjou was a professional soldier and had lost his left hand while on a mapping expedition in the Kabyia campaign. He had a wooden articulated prosthetic hand made, painted to resemble a glove, strapped to his left forearm. Overlooked by both French and Mexican comrades who came to bury their dead it was found by an Anglo-French farmer, Langlais. Two years later it was sold and taken to the Quarter Viénot in Sidi bel-Abbés, the home of the Foreign Legion. When the Legion left Algeria Capitaine Danjou's wooden hand went with it to Aubagne where it remains in the Legion Museum at their headquarters. The hand is the most cherished artifact in Legion history and the prestige and honor granted to a Legionnaire to carry it on parade in its protective case is among the greatest bestowed on a Legionnaire.

April 30 is celebrated as "Camerone Day", an important day for the Legionnaires, when the wooden prosthetic hand of Capitaine Danjou is brought out for display and veneration in special ceremonies. That day officers prepare and serve all lesser rank Legionnaires coffee to celebrate the "...coffee they [The Legionnaires of Camarone] never had."

After hearing of the battle, French Emperor Napoleon III had the name Camerone embroidered onto the flag of the Foreign Legion."