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Emperor of Mexico Maximilian 1832-1867 Emperors Mexico Biography Empress, consort of Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico Carlota 1840-1927 Empresses Mexico Biography Mexico History European intervention, 1861-1867 Mexico Politics and government 1861-1867

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The last emperor of Mexico : the dramatic story of the Hapsburg Archduke who created a kingdom in the new world

Shawcross, Edward

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Summary: "In the 1860s, Napoleon III persuaded a young Austrian Archduke and a Belgian princess to leave Europe and become the Emperor and Empress of Mexico. Political novices Maximilian and Carlota accepted the throne and arrived in a Mexico newly pacified by a French army of 30,000 troops ruled by terror, pushing Mexico's great revolutionary leader Benito Juarez to the American border. Maximilian and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021

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