Monroe Doctrine
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The Monroe Doctrine is a United States foreign policy position that opposes any foreign interference in the Western Hemisphere. Originally concerned with European colonialism, it holds that any interv
Political cartoon by Louis Dalrymple about U.S. expansionism; Uncle Sam straddles the Americas while wielding a big stick inscribed with the words "Monroe Doctrine 1824–1905". The stick is a metaphor for military force.
James Monroe, 5th President of the United States
Proclamation of the Chilean Declaration of Independence on February 18, 1818
Victor Gillam's 1896 political cartoon depicting Uncle Sam standing with a rifle between the Europeans and Latin Americans
Maximilian I of Mexico
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Maximilian I was an Austrian archduke who became emperor of the Second Mexican Empire from 10 April 1864 until his execution by the Restored Republic of Mexico on 19 June 1867.
Monroe Doctrine
…extradite back to Cuba within that same year. In 1862, French forces under Napoleon III invaded and conquered Mexico, giving control to the puppet monarch Maximilian I. Washington denounced this as a violation of the doctrine but was unable to intervene because of the American Civil War. This marked the first time the…
Formal portrait, c. 1864
Maximilian as a boy, 1847, by Joseph Karl Stieler
Maximilian in uniform, painted in 1853
Maria Amélia of Brazil by Friedrich Dürck, painted between 1837 and 1839