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Maximilian (1832–1867)

Emperor of Mexico 1864–67. He accepted that title when the French emperor Napoleon III's troops occupied the country, but encountered resistance from the deposed president Benito Juárez. In 1866, after the French troops withdrew on the insistence of the USA, Maximilian was captured by Mexican republicans and shot.



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Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph, Archduke of Austria and Emperor of Mexico, also picked the Adriatic coast for his "weekend place".
 
 
 
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