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Mexico’s ill-fated Austrian emperor

Edward Shawcross describes a little-known attempt to install an Austrian archduke as emperor of Mexico in the mid-19th century

• Elinor Evans

Published: February 9, 2022 at 12:10 PM

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Edward Shawcross speaks to Elinor Evans about a little-known and disastrous attempt to install a Habsburg archduke, Ferdinand Maximilian, as emperor of Mexico in the mid-19th century, at a time when the US Civil War was raging.

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Edward Shawcross is the author of The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World (Faber & Faber, 2021)

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