Mun gabatar muku da wasu bayanan tarihin rayuwar Gral. Zaragoza wanda, Sojojin Gabas suka umarta, kuma suka sami goyon baya daga 'yan asalin Zacapoaxtlas, suka kayar da makiya Faransa a shahararren Yaƙin Mayu 5.
-Ignacio Zaragoza, an haife shi a cikin Texas (sannan lardin Mexico) a 1829.
-Yayi karatu a garin Matamoros da kuma a Monterrey. Daga baya, ya shiga cikin Masu tsaron kasa fara aikin soja mai hazaka.
-Shekarun farko na aikin soja, Zaragoza ya fito fili ya nuna goyon baya ga masu sassaucin ra'ayi, yana kare biranen Saltillo da Monterrey da Gral. Santa Anna. Daga baya, mai goyon bayan Tsarin Mulki na 1857, ya shiga cikin yaƙe-yaƙe masu muhimmanci kamar na Calpulalpan, wanda ya ƙare Gyara War (1860).
-In 1862, a cikin umarnin wanda ake kira Sojojin Gabas ya yi yaƙi da sojojin Faransa a Acultzingo kuma bayan kwanaki, ya fatattaki maharan a gefen Puebla (a cikin sanannen Yakin 5 ga Mayu) ta haka ne samun nasarar da ba zato ba tsammani duba da yanayin sojojinsa da kuma karancin mayaka. Wannan hujja ta nuna babbar nasararsa.
-Yan watanni kadan bayan nasarar sa a garin Puebla, a ranar 8 ga Satumba, Ignacio Zaragoza ya mutu a wannan babban birnin yana da shekaru 33. Don fa'idodin da yake da shi, an ayyana Janar Zaragoza a matsayin Abin farin ciki na ƙasar.
