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	Kaiser Maximilian Puerto Vallarta Restaurant: History
		In his early years, Maximilian, the brother of Austrian Emperor Francis Joseph, served his family's empire as a naval officer and governor of Lombardy-Venetia in Italy (1857-59).
		In 1864, Maximilian and Carlota arrived in Mexico, The conservatives wanted Maximilian to annul the liberal reforms of the Benito Juarez goverment.
		The restaurant Kaiser Maximilian was named after him, providing you with a combination of modern european cuisine and contemporary and traditional austrian dishes.
	www.kaisermaximilian.com /history.html (476 words)

	Maximilian I of Mexico Summary
		Maximilian of Hapsburg (1832-1867) was an Austrian archduke and emperor of Mexico.
		Maximilian was described at the time as being 6 feet 2 inches in height, handsome, diplomatic, and gracious, or the ideal monarch for the age of enlightened despotism.
		Maximilian landed at Veracruz on May 28, 1864; but from the very outset he found himself involved in serious difficulties since the Mexican liberals, led by Benito Juárez, refused to recognize his rule and there was continuous warfare between his French troops and the Mexican republicans.
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	Maximilian of Mexico
		Maximilian was born in Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria, the second son of Franz Karl Josef[?], Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie Fredericka of Bavaria.
		(Maximilian was not told of the dubious nature of the plebescite, which was taken by the French troops occupying the city.) Maximilian's decision was contrary to the advice of his brother, the emperor Francis Joseph, and involved the loss of all his rights in Austria.
		Maximilian landed at Veracruz on May 28, 1864; but from the very outset he found himself involved in difficulties of the most serious kind, as the Mexican Liberales and Republicans, led by President Benito Juarez, refused to recognize his rule, and there was continuous warfare between the French troops and the Mexican Republicans.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Maximilian_of_Mexico.html (942 words)

	Maximilian of Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico, (July 6, 1832 - June 19, 1867) was a member of Austria's Imperial Habsburg family.
		Maximilian was born as His Imperial Highness Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph, Archduke of Austria, Prince of Hungary and Bohemia.
		Maximilian landed at Veracruz on May 28, 1864; but from the very outset he found himself involved in serious difficulties since the Mexican liberals, led by President Benito Juárez, refused to recognize his rule and there was continuous warfare between his French troops and the Mexican republicans.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/m/ma/maximilian_of_mexico.html (912 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.
		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.
		Maximilian had an Indian mistress in Cuernavaca and, according to contemporary historians, she gave birth to a boy in 1866.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/history/jtuck/jtmaximilian.html (997 words)

	MATHEW BRADY GALLERY, NY - Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico
		Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph, Archduke of Austria, became Emperor of Mexico when Napoleon III sought to extend French imperial power.
		Almost immediately, Maximilian's policies antagonized his backers, as he upheld Benito Juarez's land reforms, educated the Indians and the poor, and encouraged Confederates to immigrate to Mexico.
		Two months later, Maximilian was court-martialed, condemned to death, and executed.
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/brady/gallery/04gal.html (201 words)

	Mexico City Hotel and Vacation Rental Villas and Apartment Reservations, Mexico
		Mexico City is the capital city of the nation of Mexico.
		Mexico City, as a municipality, was established in 1521 by Hernán Cortéz in the middle of the now drained Lake Texcoco on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, and of its lesser-known twin city Tlatelolco.
		Mexico City, with its distinct mestizo culture, blending native Indian (Nahuatl) and Spanish heritages, has in recent decades become one of the great financial, economic, educational, cultural, and tourist centers of the world.
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	Manet and the Execution of Maximilian \| Home
		President Juárez of Mexico supports a moratorium passed by Mexican Congress on the repayment of debt to foreign lenders.
		Maximilian leaves Mexico City and heads north to the town of Querétaro, where he is met by Miramón and Mejía.
		Maximilian and his generals Miramón and Mejía are executed by firing squad outside Querétaro.
	www.moma.org /exhibitions/2006/Manet/timeline.htm (757 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Maximilian of Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Early Life Maximilian was born in Schönbrunn, Vienna, Austria, the second son of Franz Karl Josef[?], Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie Fredericka of Bavaria.
		Offer of a Mexican Crown In 1859 he was first approached by Mexican exiles with the proposal to become the candidate for the throne of Mexico.
		Related readings Maximilian's papers were published at Leipzig in 1867, in seven volumes, under the title Aus meinem Leben, Reiseskizzen, Aphorismen, Gedichte.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ma/Maximilian_of_Mexico (923 words)

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		Mexico had finally gained independence from Spain in 1821 after a difficult and bloody struggle, and a number of internal political takeovers and wars, including the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and the Mexican Civil War of 1858, had ruined the national economy.
		Marching on toward Mexico City, the French army encountered strong resistance at the Mexican forts of Loreto and Guadalupe.
		Maximilian's rule of Mexico was also short lived, from 1864 to 1867.
	www.mexonline.com /cinco.htm (772 words)

	Empire visual aesthetics of Manet's Execution of Maximilian - by Boje
		The blond-haired, blue-eyed Emperor of Mexico is denied empire’s eloquent narrative of a tragic and yet heroic death at the hands of the indigenous and colonized rebels.
		Ferdinand Maximilian (1832 - 1867), an Austrian Archduke and brother to the emperor of Austria, was installed in Mexico as a puppet emperor by Napoleon III in 1863.
		Maximilian wanted to leave with the French troops, but his wife, Charlotte, daughter of the King of the Belgiums (Leopold I), and also first cousin to Queen Victoria, convinced Maximilian to stay, asserting that he had the support of the Mexican people, and to withdraw was dishonorable.
	peaceaware.com /papers/Empire_Manet_Maximilian.htm (6115 words)

	casa imperial de Mexico
		The candidate for the throne chosen by Empress Eugenie was the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian brother of the Austrian Emperor.
		Maximilian was enchanted but after the party was over the imperial couple registered their shock at the living conditions of the poor in contrast to the magnificent haciendas of the upper class.
		Maximilian ever the romantic was obviously not too worried by the dire financial state, as no sooner had he arrived in Mexico City, finding the city palace too gloomy after Miramar, he spent vast amounts enlarging and beautifying the hilltop castle of Chapultepec.
	www.casaimperial.org /emperador.htm (3073 words)

	Maximilian, 1832-67, emperor of Mexico. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		As the Austrian archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, he was denied a share in the imperial government by his reactionary brother, Emperor Francis Joseph.
		Maximilian served as commander in chief of the Austrian fleet and was governor-general of Lombardo-Venetia (1857–59), but he found no outlet for his dreams of liberal reform.
		Maximilian, who had no real understanding of Mexico, found most of the country hostile to him and loyal to Benito Juárez.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ma/MaxiMex.html (360 words)

	Maximilian
		The unfound treasure of Maximilian, once Emperor of Mexico, remains hidden somewhere in the King Mountains north of El Paso, Texas.
		Maximilian’s aids hire a gang of ex-Confederate soldiers as guides and guards with disastrous results.
		Mexico is the product of two cultures, which clashed upon the arrival of Hernán Cortés, the most famous truly Spanish conqueror, in 1521.
	www.suite101.com /reference/maximilian (573 words)

	Empire of Maximilian.History.Mexico for Kids
		The conservatives believed that Mexico should be a monarchy, and saw the intervention as an opportunity to defeat the liberals and abolish the Republic.
		Maximilian was a cultured man of liberal ideas, a fact that made him lose the sympathy of the Catholic Church and the support of some conservatives.
		Political disorder was reduced and Mexico began to function as a Republic, in accordance with its laws.
	www.elbalero.gob.mx /kids/history/html/sxix/imperio.html (748 words)

	Maximilian (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Archduke Maximilian was the younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, and his wife, Princess Charlotte, was the daughter of King Leopold of Belgium.
		This young royal couple was very bright, Maximilian being a naturalist who specialized in butterflies and birds, and Charlotte delighted in philosophy and mathematics.
		Maximilian accepted with two conditions: first, that the Mexican people request that he become their ruler; and second, that France support the regime with its military and finances.
	civilwar.bluegrass.net /ForeignInfluences/maximilian.html (371 words)

	Maximilian and Charlotte - Mexico History - Maximilian and Charlotte, History
		The Archiduke of Austria, Maximilian of Hapsburg, and his wife Charlotte Amelie were in Paris one fine day in 1863, when they received a communiqué from Napoleon III urging them to accept the throne of Mexico.
		Maximilian rejected a little bit disappointed because his brother, Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-Hungary, recently removed him from his position as Prince of Lombardy-Vaneto for having administrated it in “liberal and romantic” way.
		Then Maximilian sent Charlotte to ask for help to all the european reigning houses, but not even the Pope wanted to intervene in what seemed to be a lost cause, due to the liberal victory in the North American Civil War.
	www.discoverymexico.com /History/Maximilian-and-Charlotte (545 words)

	Mexico: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — Infoplease.com
		Mexico is bordered by the United States to the north and Belize and Guatemala to the southeast.
		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 (1261 words)

	Colonial Cities of Mexico - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		The city was also the site of the surrender (1867) of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico to the forces of the former president of Mexico Benito Pablo Juárez.
		In 1917 the present constitution of Mexico was adopted at Querétaro.
		This was the beginning of Mexico's struggle for freedom from Spanish rule which was to drag on until 1824 and take some 600,000 lives.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /mexico_colonial_cities.htm (990 words)

	Manet and the Execution of Maximilian \| Home
		Maximilian, a member of the Hapsburg family of Austria, had been installed in power in Mexico by Napoleon III of France in an attempt to recover unpaid debts and establish a European presence there.
		This endeavor failed miserably, ending with the execution of Maximilian and two of his generals by firing squad on June 19, 1867.
		Manet and the Execution of Maximilian unites these five works for the first time in the United States and features selected additional works that illuminate the fascinating development of this series.
	www.moma.org /exhibitions/2006/Manet/index.htm (256 words)

	About Mexico - Mexico Villas Vacation Rentals
		Mexico's two million square kilometers include beaches that border the Caribbean Sea, The Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of California, and the Pacific Ocean.
		Mexico has many other well known tourist destinations that, although somewhat smaller, offer an equally wide selection of places to stay.
		Mexico has an immense variety of locations that attract Scuba Divers and snorkeling.
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	Mexico Gold Tokens
		By in large, Mexican gold tokens are mostly related to Maximilian who ruled Mexico from 1864-1867.
		In addition, there are tokens bearing both Maximilian and his wife Carlota; tokens bearing Cuauhtemoc, the last emperor of the Aztecs; and tokens bearing Augustin I Iturbide who ruled Mexico from 1822-1823.
		Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, The French Intervention, Its History and that of its Coinage 1864-1867 by Dr. Alberto Francisco Pradeau, 1970, p.20
	www.zgold.com /mexico.htm (759 words)

	Cuernavaca Mexico Travel and Tours to Cuernavaca by Enjoy Mexico
		This history is better read and understood in Cuernavaca, because Mexico's conquistador Hernán Cortés himself settled in this place and built a palace where he lived with his wife and children, surrounded by his immense and prosperous haciendas sown with sugarcane.
		And it was because of its serene air and its closeness to the capital of the country that, in the XIX century, emperor Maximilian of Habsburg and his wife Carlota chose the splendid baroque house in Borda Garden as their summerhouse.
		There in the far end he commissioned the construction of the main mansion, of multiple rooms in neoclassical style, that, according to gossip, housed his lover, the India Bonita.
	www.enjoymexico.net /cuernavaca-mexico.php (930 words)

	Carlota, the Grand Opera - Story of Maximilian and Carlota
		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.
		Maximilian was incredibly calm as he faced his executioners.
	www.grandopera.com /storyc.html (286 words)

	Maximilian, 1832–67, emperor of Mexico — FactMonster.com
		As the Austrian archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, he was denied a share in the imperial government by his reactionary brother, Emperor Francis Joseph.
		Maximilian served as commander in chief of the Austrian fleet and was governor-general of Lombardo-Venetia (1857–59), but he found no outlet for his dreams of liberal reform.
		Maximilian, in desperation, assumed personal command of his forces, then mostly concentrated at Querétaro.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0832311.html (292 words)

	Mexico: From Empire to Revolution (Getty Exhibitions)
		The first section focuses on the short-lived empire of the Austrian Archduke Maximilian in Mexico between 1864 and 1867.
		The photographs chronicle Maximilian's attempt to legitimize his rule as well as his ultimate failure to do so, as seen in the photographs documenting his execution and its aftermath.
		Part II of this exhibition begins in the 1870s and addresses the use of photography to document the outward manifestations of material progress achieved during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876 -1911.) The focus of the exhibition changes dramatically in the second section, which depicts the violent explosion of the Mexican revolution in 1910.
	www.getty.edu /art/exhibitions/art_mexico2 (277 words)

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