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	Mexico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Napoleon III of France, Emperor of France, imposed Maximilian as Emperor of Mexico from 1864 to 1867.
		Mexico is bordered by the United States to the north, and Belize and Guatemala to the southeast.
		Spanish is the official language of Mexico and is spoken by the majority of the population.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mexico (5295 words)

	Maximilian I of Mexico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		With the backing of Napoleon III of France and a group of Mexican conservatives, he was proclaimed Emperor of Mexico on April 10, 1864.
		His brother was Emperor Franz Josef of Austria (sometimes identified by the English spelling Francis Joseph).
		In 1859 he was first approached by Mexican monarchists with a proposal to become the Emperor of Mexico.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maximilian_of_Mexico (965 words)

	Maximilian I of Mexico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico, (July 6, 1832 – June 19, 1867) was a member of Austria's Imperial Habsburg family.
		Maximilian was born in Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria, the second son of Franz Karl Josef, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie Friederike Dorothee Wilhelmine Prinzessin von Bayern.
		The Emperor and Empress set up their palace at Chapultepec, a hill on the outskirts of Mexico City that had been a retreat for Aztec emperors and more recently a military academy.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Maximilian_of_Mexico (993 words)

	ITURBIDE - LoveToKnow Article on ITURBIDE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		After enjoying a better education than was then usual in Mexico, Iturbide entered the military service, and in 1810 held the post of lieutenant in the provincial regiment of his native city.
		In 1820 Apodaca, viceroy of Mexico, received instructions from the Spanish cortes to proclaim the constitution promulgated in Spain in 1812, but although obliged at first to submit to an order by which his power was much curtailed, he secretly cherished the design of reviving the absolute power for Ferdinand VII.
		Although the congress refused to accept his abdication on the ground that to do so would be to recognize the validity of his election, it permitted the ex-emperor to retire to Leghorn in Italy, while in consideration of his services in 1820 a yearly pension of 5000 was conferred upon him.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /I/IT/ITURBIDE.htm (672 words)

	History of Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Prominent figures in Mexico’s war for independence were Father Jose Maria Morelos; Gen. Augustin de Iturbide, who defeated the Spaniards and ruled as Mexican emperor from 1822-23; and Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana, who went on to control Mexican politics from 1833 to 1855.
		Archduke Maximilian of Austria, whom Napoleon III of France established as Emperor of Mexico, was deposed by Juarez and executed in 1867.
		Mexico’s severe social and economic problems erupted in a revolution that lasted from 1910-20 and gave rise to the 1917 constitution.
	www.historyofnations.net /northamerica/mexico.html (734 words)

	Mexico
		Mexico is a land of extreme diversity: the superficial glitz of fly-in fly-out tourist resorts coexists with awe-inspiring ancient cities, and snow-capped volcanoes slope down to pine forests, deserts and balmy tropical beaches.
		Mexico's east coast is bordered by the Gulf of Mexico, and the east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula faces the Caribbean Sea.
		Mexico is a mountainous country with two north-south ranges framing a group of broad central plateaus known as the Altiplano Central.
	www.gypsylounge.com /x/nam/history_lesson/mexico.htm (5843 words)

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		The brother of the emperor Franz Josef, archduke Ferdinand Max, seemed to be a suitable candidate.
		In Paris, which had an assistance contract with Mexico, she got the answer from Napoleon III., "it would be good, if her majesty would not hang on to illusions".
		Her last hope was the Pope, who could have talked to Napoleon and Franz Josef, concluded a concordat with Mexico and convinced the Mexican catholic church.
	www.chez.com /johannes/History/E_KuK_Mexiko.htm (1303 words)

	Maximilian I of Mexico -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		His brother was Emperor (Click link for more info and facts about Franz Josef of Austria) Franz Josef of Austria (sometimes identified by the English spelling Francis Joseph).
		Maximilian was born as His Imperial Highness Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph, Archduke of Austria, Prince of (A republic in central Europe) Hungary and (A historical area and former kingdom in the Czech Republic) Bohemia.
		In 1859 he was first approached by Mexican monarchists with a proposal to become the (The male ruler of an empire) Emperor of (A Republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810) Mexico.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/maximilian_i_of_mexico.htm (895 words)

	Mexico
		Mexico is the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world and the second most-populous country in Latin America after Portuguese-speaking Brazil.
		Mexico's agricultural sector continues to experience heavy debt problems, even as the government seeks to foster a shift to a market-oriented and competitive farming industry.
		Mexico attended the 1994 Summit of the Americas, held in Miami, and managed coordination of the agenda item on education for the 1998 Summit of the Americas in Santiago.
	www.onlinelearning.net /instructors/smurr/LatAm/MxCen/mx.html (12763 words)

	Mexico (11/03)
		Mexico is one of the world’s most trade dependent countries, and it is particularly dependent on trade with the U.S, which buys approximately 88% of its exports.
		Mexico actively participates in several international organizations; it was elected to a seat on the UN Security Council for the period 2002-03.
		Mexico attended the 1994 Summit of the Americas, held in Miami, and managed coordination of the agenda item on education for the 1998 Summit of the Americas in Santiago, Chile.
	www.state.gov /p/wha/rt/soa/2001/bn/index.cfm?docid=1838 (4904 words)

	MEXICO
		Mexico was declared an Empire in 1821, following the declaration of independence from Spain.
		The Empire was accordingly revived in the person of Maximilian I, younger brother of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, 10th April 1864.
		The Imperial House of Mexico, The House of Itúrbide.
	www.4dw.net /royalark/Mexico/mexico.htm (531 words)

	Mexican History & Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1862 the French Emperor Napoleon III intervened militarily in México: an empire was established from 1864 to 1867, under the Austrian prince Maximilian of Hapsburg.
		At the initiative of Mexico, the Treaty of Tlatelolco was signed in 1967, being the first treaty of its kind which prohibits nuclear weapons in a geographic region, in this case in Latin America.
		Thanks to the political stability of the accelerated economic and social development which Mexico has experienced during the first half of the twentieth century, the country has gone from being at the turn of the century a principally agricultural economy to become the 13th most important economy in the world.
	www.mexican-embassy.dk /history.html (2339 words)

	Rebels flee to Mexico, weaken emperor - The Washington Times: Civil War - July 24, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		To many Southerners from a traditionalistic and aristocratic culture, imperial Mexico with its close proximity and temperate climate appeared to be an ideal place to live and rebuild.
		Although emigration to Mexico was a popular idea in the American South right after the war, just a few thousand chose to go, and the movement subsided quickly.
		The colonies that had formed were all short-lived because of attacks by Indians and robbers and the violence of the war in Mexico between the emperor's forces and the opposition, led by Benito Juarez.
	www.washtimes.com /civilwar/20040723-082952-7707r.htm (1010 words)

	AllRefer.com - Maximilian, 1832–67, emperor of Mexico (Mexican History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		As the Austrian archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, he was denied a share in the imperial government by his reactionary brother, Emperor Francis Joseph.
		The United States, irked by this violation of the Monroe Doctrine, was frankly hostile and was prevented from interfering only by the American Civil War.
		When affairs in France and the cessation of the Civil War impelled Napoleon III to withdraw (1866–67) the French troops from Mexico, the flimsy fabric of the empire dissolved.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MaxiMex.html (443 words)

	casa imperial de Mexico
		In the meantime Mexico would continue to be ruled by the viceroy but under the terms of the plan of Iguala and with the help of the army of the three guarantees commanded by Don Agustin.
		Reports coming from Mexico indicated that the country was fast falling into anarchy and that the populace, church and army were still behind the Emperor and that they viewed him as the only person capable of bringing peace and order to an independent Mexico.
		The desperate politicians in power in Mexico City, having seen what had happened when Napoleon returned from Elba were terrified at the news of the Emperor’s imminent return and of the news spreading amongst the people and the army.
	www.casaimperial.org /augustin.htm (1988 words)

	HISTORY OF MEXICO - MAXIMILIAN AND CARLOTA: THE "ARCHDUPE" AND HIS TRAGIC LADY - BY JIM TUCK IN MEXICO CONNECT
		This was the case in Mexico, during the past century, when Maximilian of Hapsburg and Benito Juárez waged a struggle to the death.
		One was the brother of an emperor and kinsman to many of the reigning houses of Europe.
		Once ensconced in Mexico City, Maximilian became almost as much anathema to his right-wing Mexican supporters as he was to Juárez, who was stirring up resistance to Maximilian and his French protectors all over the country.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/history/jtuck/jtmaximilian.html (997 words)

	Mexico
		From 1821 to 1877, there were two emperors, several dictators, and enough presidents and provisional executives to make a new government on the average of every nine months.
		Mexico lost Texas (1836), and after defeat in the war with the U.S. (1846–1848), it lost the area that is now California, Nevada, and Utah, most of Arizona and New Mexico, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
		The subsequent civil war was interrupted by the French invasion of Mexico (1861) and the crowning of Maximilian of Austria as emperor (1864).
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107779.html (1266 words)

	Fernando Maximiliano de Habsburgo. History. Mexico for Kids.
		Son of Archdukes Francisco Carlos and Sofía, and brother of Francisco Jose, Emperor of Austria-Hungary.
		Maximiliano, believing to count on the support of people, accepted the throne of Mexico that the conservatives offered him, between them was the general Juan Nepomuceno Almonte, son of the general Jose Maria Morelos and Pavón.
		The Metting of Notables or Regency of Mexico, unanimously, had offered the crown to Maximiliano, assuring to him that he counted on the support of the town.
	www.elbalero.gob.mx /kids/history/html/sxix/biomaximiliano.html (383 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: CONQUEST: CORTES, MONTEZUMA, AND THE FALL OF OLD MEXICO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico: 1517-1521 by Bernal Diaz Del Castillo
		The complex genealogical interweaving of Castilian and Mexican royal families, the intricacies of battle strategy and tactics, the labyrinthine political machinations, and the brutal imposition of external standards of behavior and belief--all are described in a gripping narrative by Thomas, a British academic.
		She is reviled as a traitor by Mexico's native people -- also looked upon as a heroine and symbolic mother of a mixed-race nation.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671511041?v=glance (1929 words)

	Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Mexico city is the seat of government and the center of the nation's commerce, finance and the arts.
		Charrería, the national sport of Mexico and a forerunner of the North American rodeo, originated among the Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century.
		The students and their families celebrate Mexico's culture by planning and partaking in a fiesta, held in the students' classroom.
	www.42explore2.com /mexico.htm (2722 words)

	Iturbide, Agustín de on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		An officer in the royalist army, he was sympathetic to independence but took no part in the separatist movement led by Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, and in fact helped to suppress the peasant revolt.
		The independence of Mexico was assured, but without the social reforms advocated by Hidalgo; instead of a new liberal state, Iturbide had ushered in a new conservative one.
		When no Bourbon prince could be found to accept the crown of Mexico and Spain repudiated the Treaty of Córdoba, his soldiers proclaimed him emperor as Agustín I. Congress, hostile but intimidated, ratified the proclamation (1822).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/I/Iturbide.asp (639 words)

	AllRefer.com - QuerEtaro, city, Mexico, Mexico (Mexican Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		It is a distribution center with industries producing machinery and farm implements; the city's cotton mills are among the most important in Mexico.
		The city was the temporary capital of Mexico when the United States invaded (1847) during the Mexican War.
		In 1867, Emperor Maximilian and his generals Miguel Miramon and TomAs Mejia were forced to surrender and then taken out and shot on a hill outside the city.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/Q/Queretr.html (264 words)

	Travel for Kids: Mexico City, Mexico
		Mexico City was built on the site of the magnificent Aztec capital, Tenochitlan.
		Traveling with kids in Mexico City, plan on spending some time – it's not a city to sightsee in a rush.
		Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico – This museum of Mexico City covers the history of Mexico, from the pre-Hispanic, through the colonial era and 19th and 20th century.
	travelforkids.com /Funtodo/Mexico/mexicocity.htm (1411 words)

	Maximilian of Mexico History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On their arrival at Vera Cruz on the coast of Mexico, they were horrified to discover that their new realm was still embroiled in civil war.
		The Emperor Napoleon III came under massive pressure to withdraw his French troops from Mexico.
		He was upright and honest, and genuinely wanted to lead Mexico into an age of peace and prosperity.
	www.austrian-mint.com /e/maxhist.html (940 words)

	Carlota, the Grand Opera - Story of Maximilian and Carlota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		t 10 o'clock on June 10th, 1867, the last Emperor of Mexico extinguished the light in his small chamber in the convent of the Capucines in the town of Queretaro and went to bed.
		He had come to Mexico in 1864, just a little over three years before with his beautiful wife, Carlota, to rule over a new world Empire.
		Seven uniformed men armed with rifles lined up; To each the Emperor handed an ounce of gold and he asked them to take good aim for his heart and make a clean death.
	www.grandopera.com /storyc.html (286 words)

	Mexican History - Chronology
		He is replaced by Cuitláhuac, who reigns for only eighty days and dies of smallpox (a disease brought by the Spaniards).
		Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec emperor, continues to resist the Spaniards.
		Mexico: Biography of Power: A History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996.
	www.ilstu.edu /class/hist263/chron.html (1373 words)

	MEXICO3
		Fought with Simon Bolivar in the Colombia in the war of independence and at the Battle of Ayacucho, then served at the Mexican legation in London, and as a volunteer in the Pontifical Army.
		Adopted by Emperor Maximilien I, and was granted the title of Prince de Iturbide with the style of His Highness, 1st September 1865.
		Received a pension from Emperor Franz Joseph in recognition of his position as the adopted son of Emperor Maximilian.
	4dw.net /royalark/Mexico/mexico3.htm (1463 words)

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