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Mexico’s ill-fated Austrian emperor

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Is It a Pleveses?

Napoleon the third is a man who loves conspiracies, back channels an to chain smokers. He tells maximilian that the country is pacified in inverted commen solicite - french euphemism for brutal counter insurgency tactics. The first signs that all is not well is actuallyt he landing at vera cruzo, again, the main port of mexico on the atlantic side. Foris is just retreating northwards in the face of the french army. All of the liberals, anotall, but many of them, titetarly, high ranking liberals and and far easters, as aris's supporters are known, have abandoned the capital. So i think

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