france chose napoleon iii to be the emperor of mexico.
france chose napoleon iii to be the emperor of mexico.
who did france choose to be the emperor of mexico?
napoleon iii
benito juárez, elected as president of mexico on 19 january 1858, suspended all repayments on mexico's foreign debts (save those owed to the united states), leading france, the united kingdom, and spain to send a joint expeditionary force that took veracruz in december 1861. juárez then repaid the debts, after which british and spanish troops withdrew, but emperor napoleon iii of france used the situation as a pretext to overthrow the republic and install a monarch friendly to the interests of france. archduke maximilian, brother of the emperor of austria, was elevated as emperor maximilian i of mexico, thereby re-establishing the mexican monarchy, but the new emperor ultimately did not bow to napoleon's wishes, leading the latter to withdraw the majority of his influence from mexico. regardless, maximilian was still viewed as a french puppet, and an illegitimate leader of the country. as well, at the end of the american civil war, us troops moved to the mexico-us border as part of a planned invasion, seeing the establishment of the second mexican empire as an infringement on their monroe doctrine. backed by the americans, ex-president juárez mobilised to retake power, and defeated maximilian at querétaro on 15 may 1867. the emperor was arraigned before a military tribunal, sentenced to death, and executed at the "cerro de las campanas" on 19 june 1867.
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