Execution of the Emperor Maximilian
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In 1824, responding to the recent independence of Latin American states, British Foreign Minister George Canning wryly commented that "the deed is done; the nail is driven, Spanish America is free; and if we do not mismanage our affairs badly, she is English." Such words, pronounced just one year after John Quincy Adams' landmark Monroe Doctrine, substantiated the fears that had led the American government to issue a sharp warning to the European powers to stay out of the Western Hemisphere. Canning's comment bespoke, however coyly, a desire to check American expansionism. Yet it was to be France, not England, that would pose the greatest challenge of the century to the newly-defined hegemony of the United States. Napoleon's liberal President Benito Juarez. Not coincidentally, the invasion came at a moment of great weakness for the United States--during the agony of the Civil War. The purpose of this research is to look at the way in which U.S. diplomats--namely Secretary of State William Seward--evolved from gracious co-hosts to unflinching accomplices in the execution of the Emperor Maximilian. In stymieing the French advance, Seward was brilliantly methodical, yet he did not act alone. As we shall see, he was greatly aided by a stellar supporting cast made up of, among others, the Mexican ambassador to the United States, the resilient Juarez, the American public, and even Napoleon himself, whose near-reverent fear of the United States caused him to abandon his de
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s. For years Gutierrez Estrada, Almonte and other monarchists had dreamt of returning a sovereign European prince to Mexican soil. A foreign monarch, Gutierrez Estrada maintained, would provide his countrymen with the stability, objectivity and traditional schooling that the Republic could not.
Estrada was the most fanatical advocate of turning Mexico into a kingdom, and he continued his efforts for more than 20 years until he met a young Mexican diplomat named JosT Hidalgo in 1850. Estrada soon turned the young man into a fervent royalist and a useful collaborator in the effort to importune European cabinets on his views. As it happened, Hidalgo was connected with various highly placed families in Spain, including that of the mother of EugTnie, Napoleon's Empress. Hidalgo next got himself transferred from Madrid to Paris in 1857, and in Paris he was received in the intimate circle of the Emperor's friends, forging a link between Estrada and the imperial court. Napoleon and EugTnie listened eagerly to these Mexican royalists whose views were reinforced by many conservative exiles fleeing the triumphant Juarez. They succeeded in convincing Napoleon that they were the voice of the Mexican people and that those people were o
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