Mariano Paredes (President of Mexico)
José Mariano Epifanio Paredes y Arrillaga was a Mexican conservative general who served as president of Mexico between December 1845 and July 1846. He assumed office through a coup against the liberal administration led by José Joaquín de Herrera. He was the grandfather of 38th Mexican President Pedro Lascuráin Paredes.
Carlos Maria Bustamante
The Battle of Palo Alto, which Mexico lost under the Paredes administration
Conservative Party (Mexico)
The Conservative Party was one of two major factions in Mexican political thought that emerged in the years after independence, the other being the Liberals.
The Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral
Mexican military banquet in 1844.
José María Gutiérrez de Estrada who in 1840 was forced to flee Mexico after provoking widespread outrage for advocating the establishment of a monarchy.
Napoleon III at whose instigation the Conservative Party finally gained widespread support for monarchism.