Battle of Camarón
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The Battle of Camarón was a last stand engagement fought on 30 April 1863 between the French Foreign Legion and the Mexican Army, during the Second French intervention in Mexico. A small French detach
Du combat le Camerone, Unknown author
Each year, the French Foreign Legion commemorates and celebrates Camarón in its headquarters in Aubagne and Bastille Day military parade in Paris; featuring the Pionniers leading and opening the way.
The second French intervention in Mexico, also known as the Second Franco-Mexican War, was a military invasion of the Republic of Mexico by the French Empire of Napoleon III, purportedly to force the
Battle of Camarón
…French: Bataille de Camerone) was a last stand engagement fought on 30 April 1863 between the French Foreign Legion and the Mexican Army, during the Second French intervention in Mexico (1861–1867). A small French detachment of 65 men, led by Captain Jean Danjou, was escorting a supply convoy when it was surrounded near the village of…
Juan Prim, who was later Prime Minister of Spain
Entry of the French Expeditionary Force into Mexico City by Jean-Adolphe Beaucé, 1868
Bazaine welcomed to Guadalajara
Soldiers of the Imperial Mexican Army