The sixty Legion soldiers besieged a building in a hacienda in the small village of Camarón de Tejeda, withstood more than a day to attack 2 000 Mexican soldiers. At the end of the day, five Legionnaires still in combat, short of ammunition, charged the Mexican troops with bayonets.More than half of legionnaires died in this battle.

Camerone remained as a senior because of the Foreign Legion and is celebrated each year, April 30, in all its units.

Half the company was killed or mortally wounded. The wounded were transported to hospitals Huatusco and Jalapa, where they were treated. The prisoners were then exchanged cons of Mexican prisoners. The first exchange took place three months later and allowed eight Legionnaires to be exchanged against two hundred Mexicains2.

The French convoy was able to avoid the attack, however, Mexican and reach safely to Puebla.

By decision of October 4, 1863, the Minister of War, Randon, ordered that the name "Cameron" is inscribed on the flags of the regiment abroad.3. Moreover, the Emperor Napoleon III decided that the names of Danjou, Vilain and Maudet be engraved on the walls of the Invalides.

A monument was erected on the site of the battle in 1892. But it was abandoned in 1948 prompted Colonel Penette to draw up a new, officially opened in 19,634. It is this last that is the inscription:

They were here less than sixty
Opposed to an army.
Its mass crushed them.
Life rather than courage
French soldiers abandoned
Cameron April 30, 1863

Today, the Mexican military pay tribute to French and Mexican soldiers who fell on that day by presenting arms as they pass this monument.