Posted by Explorer8939 on February 05, 2001 at 08:48:35:
In Reply to: Honest Abe... posted by YoungBrig on February 04, 2001 at 22:37:19:
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Actually, the biggest thing that AL did for Mexico was in pressuring France to extract its troops from Mexico during the reign of Maximillian. The French installed Maximillian as emperor during the US Civil War, when the US government wasn't looking. When the North took control of most of the US, and there was an opportunity to pressure the French to get out of Mexico, the result was that Maximillian was left without an army, and he was easily deposed by Benito Juarez. At least, that's what I remember from history class. |
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