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originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: DBCowboy
I asked for cutlery!
Remember when I asked you for Cinco de Mayo how many tacos you wanted and you said, "I want two piece!!!".
I was confused with that too.
originally posted by: TheAlleghenyGentleman
Este no es tu día de victoria.
Hijueputas tonto blanquitos.
In Algeria in early May 1853, Captain Jean Danjou lost his left hand during a topographical expedition, when he was giving a signal gunshot and the cannon of his musket exploded. Because of that, he wore a precisely-made wooden hand instead.
This wooden hand was stolen by a Mexican at the hacienda as a souvenir. Luckily, it was rediscovered in 1865, when an Austrian officer named Grueber of the Austrian Legion (allies of France) found the hand at a ranch and bought it. He handed it over to Marshal Bazaine, then the chief of the French forces in Mexico and a former NCO (and officer) with the Foreign Legion. Thereafter, the hand was transferred to Algeria, to the Legion’s headquarters.
Today, the wooden hand of Captain Jean Danjou is paraded annually on Camerone Day in Aubagne, the Legion’s current HQ in southern France. It is carried by a designated veteran – a legionnaire, NCO or an officer. To be designated to carry the wooden hand of Captain Danjou on Camerone Day is perceived as the highest honor for any veteran of the French Foreign Legion.