Jumat, 14 April 2017

You Command: French Foreign Legion in Mexico, 1863

When the republic of Mexico’s ended interest payments for the country’s foreign debts in June 1861, three of Mexico’s principal European creditor nations – France, Britain and Spain – formed a military coalition to force resumption of the payments. From December 1861 to January 1862, coalition naval and ground forces arrived and seized Mexican ports …

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