8 December 1861 – 21 June 1867 (5 years, 6 months, 1 week and 6 days)
Location
Mexico
Result
Mexican Republican victory
Belligerents
Mexico
Supported by:
United States (1865–1867)
France
Mexican Empire
Supported by:
Spain (1861–1862)
United Kingdom (1861–1862)
Austria[1]
Belgium
Egypt (including Sudanese slave soldiers)[2]
Polish exiles[3]
Commanders and leaders
Benito Juárez
Porfirio Díaz
Ignacio Zaragoza #
Jesús González Ortega
José María Arteaga
Miguel Negrete
Antonio Rojas †
Mariano Escobedo
Jerónimo Treviño
Vicente Riva Palacio
José López Uraga (1862–1864)
Napoleon III
Francois Achille Bazaine
Élie Frédéric Forey
Abel Douay
Auguste Henri Brincourt
Pierre Joseph Jeanningros
Maximilian
Juan Almonte
Santiago Vidaurri
Tomás Mejía
Miguel Miramón
Leonardo Márquez
Manuel Lozada (1865–1866)
Ramón Méndez
José López Uraga (1864–1867)
Strength
70,000
Supported by:
3,000 (1867)
38,493[4]
16,200–24,000[5][6]
Supported by:[7][8]
23,285[4]
700
7,859
1,462
424[4]
2,000[9]
472[3]
Casualties and losses
31,962 killed (including 11,000 executed)[10]
8,304 wounded
33,281 captured
14,000 dead
Details
France: 6,654 dead[7]
1,729 killed[10]
4,925 dead from disease[7]
2,559 wounded[10]
Mexican Empire: 5,671 killed[10]
2,159 wounded[10]
4,379 captured[10]
Belgium: 573 dead
Austria: 455 Austrians dead
inc. 199 from disease[3]
177 Hungarians dead[1]
Egypt: 126 dead[11]
inc. 46 from disease[12]
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Second French intervention in Mexico (1861–1867)
1862
Fortín
Las Cumbres
Atlixco
Puebla
Barranca Seca
Cerro del Borrego
1863
Jonuta
Siege of Puebla
San Pablo del Monte
Tampico
2nd Atlixco
Camarón
Mexico City
Chiapa de Corzo
Morelia
Guanajuato
1864
Guadalajara
El Jahuactal
San Juan Bautista
Mazatlán
Acapulco
Nanahuatipam
Majoma
Monterrey
Matamoros
Totoapan
Colima
Jiquilpan
San Pedro
1865
Cuauhtémoc
El Rosario
Tacámbaro
Tula
Soyaltepec
La Loma
Parral
Chihuahua
Álamos
Ixmiquilpan
1866
Bagdad
Santa Isabel
Chihuahua
Siege of Jonuta
Santa Gertrudis
Miahuatlán
Juchitán
La Carbonera
Guayabo
1867
Guadalajara
Villa de Álvarez
San Jacinto
Monterrey
3rd Puebla
Lomas de San Lorenzo
Siege of Querétaro
Mexico City
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The second French intervention in Mexico (Spanish: segunda intervención francesa en México), also known as the Second Franco-Mexican War (1861–1867),[13] was a military invasion of the Republic of Mexico by the French Empire of Napoleon III, purportedly to force the collection of Mexican debts in conjunction with Great Britain and Spain. Mexican conservatives supported the invasion, since they had been defeated by the liberal government of Benito Juárez in a three-year civil war. Defeated on the battlefield, conservatives sought the aid of France to effect regime change and establish a monarchy in Mexico, a plan that meshed with Napoleon III's plans to re-establish the presence of the French Empire in the Americas. Although the French invasion displaced Juárez's Republican government from the Mexican capital and the monarchy of Archduke Maximilian was established, the Second Mexican Empire collapsed within a few years. Material aid from the United States, whose four-year civil war ended in 1865, invigorated the Republican fight against the regime of Maximilian, and the 1866 decision of Napoleon III to withdraw military support for Maximilian's regime accelerated the monarchy's collapse. Maximilian and two Mexican generals were executed by firing squad on 19 June 1867, ending this period of Mexican history.
The intervention came as a civil war, the Reform War, had just concluded, and the intervention allowed the Conservative opposition against the liberal social and economic reforms of President Juárez to take up their cause once again. The Mexican Catholic Church, Mexican conservatives, much of the upper-class and Mexican nobility, and some Native Mexican communities invited, welcomed and collaborated with the French empire's help to install Maximilian of Habsburg as Emperor of Mexico.[14] The emperor himself, however proved to be of liberal inclination and continued some of the Juárez government's most notable liberal measures. Some liberal generals defected to the Empire, including the powerful, northern governor Santiago Vidaurri, who had fought on the side of Juárez during the Reform War.
The French army landed in 1861, aiming to rapidly take the capital of Mexico City, but Mexican republican forces defeated them in the Battle of Puebla on 5 May 1862, Cinco de Mayo, delaying their taking the capital for a year. The French and Mexican Imperial Army captured much of Mexican territory, including major cities, but guerrilla warfare by supporters of the republic remained a significant factor and Juárez himself never left the national territory. The intervention was increasingly using up troops and money at a time when the recent Prussian victory over Austria was inclining France to give greater military priority to European affairs. The liberals also never lost the official recognition of the United States of America in spite of their ongoing civil war, and following the defeat and surrender of the Confederate States of America in April 1865 the reunited country began providing materiel support to the republican forces. Invoking the Monroe Doctrine, the U.S. government asserted that it would not tolerate a lasting French presence on the continent. Facing defeats and mounting pressure both at home and abroad, the French army began to redeploy to Europe in 1866, and the French empire in Mexico collapsed in 1867.[14]
^ abPéter Torbágyi (2008). Magyar kivándorlás Latin–Amerikába az első világháború előtt(PDF) (in Hungarian). Szeged: University of Szeged. p. 42. ISBN 978-963-482-937-9. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
^Richard Leroy Hill (1995). A Black corps d'élite: an Egyptian Sudanese conscript battalion with the French Army in Mexico, 1863–1867, and its survivors in subsequent African history. East Lansing, US: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 978-0870133398.
^ abcWalter Klinger (2008). Für Kaiser Max nach Mexiko – Das Österreichische Freiwilligenkorps in Mexiko 1864/67 (in German). Munich: Grin Verlag. ISBN 978-3640141920. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
^ abcGustave Niox (1874). Expédition du Mexique, 1861–1867; récit politique & militaire (in French). Paris: J. Dumaine. ASIN B004IL4IB4. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
^Conaway, William J. (2010). A Gringo Guide to Mexican History. William J Conaway. ISBN 978-0976580577.
^Miller, Robert Ryal (2015). Mexico: A History. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0806175270.
^ abcJean-Charles Chenu (1877). "Expédition du Mexique" [Mexican expedition]. Aperçu sur les expéditions de Chine, Cochinchine, Syrie et Mexique : Suivi d'une étude sur la fièvre jaune par le Dr Fuzier [Overview of the expeditions in China, Cochinchina, Syria and Mexico: A Follow-up study on the yellow fever by Dr. Fuzier] (in French). Paris: Masson. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
^Martín de las Torres (1867). El Archiduque Maximiliano de Austria en Méjico (in Spanish). Barcelona: Luis Tasso. ISBN 978-1271445400. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
^Robert Ryal Miller (1961). "The American Legion of Honor in Mexico". Pacific Historical Review. 30 (3). Berkeley: University of California Press: 229–241. doi:10.2307/3636920. ISSN 0030-8684. JSTOR 3636920.
^ abcdefClodfelter 2017, p. 305.
^René Chartrand (1994). Lee Johnson (ed.). The Mexican Adventure 1861–67. Men-at-arms. Vol. 272. Illustrated by Richard Hook. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 185532430X.
^Richard Leslie Hill; Peter C. Hogg (1995). A Black corps d'élite: an Egyptian Sudanese conscript battalion with the French Army in Mexico, 1863–1867, and its survivors in subsequent African history. East Lansing, US: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 978-0870133398.
^known in France as Expédition du Mexique at the time and today as Intervention française au Mexique
^ abKohn, George Childs, ed. (2007). Dictionary of Wars (3rd ed.). New York: Facts on File. p. 329. ISBN 978-1-4381-2916-7. OCLC 466183689.
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