True meaning behind Cinco de Mayo It was the year 1813, and the Mexicans nationals were constantly fighting of the spanards in an attempt to win their independence from Spain. One cloudy night on the 5th of may, twelve mexican men dressed in historical Aztec Leppard armour snuck onto a Spanish armada ship which held a large quantity of mayonnaise and set the ship a blaze. As the ship burned and sunk into the gulf, the entire population of the small harbor town of Cacahuamilpa all yelled ""Cinco …