Second Mexican Empire
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The Second Mexican Empire, officially known as the Mexican Empire, was a constitutional monarchy established in Mexico by Mexican monarchists with the support of the Second French Empire. This period
Maximilian I of Mexico by Winterhalter, 1864. This portrait hangs in Chapultepec Castle.
Photograph of a reenactment of the Execution of Maximilian I of Mexico, and Generals Miramón and Mejía. Left to right: Mejía, Miramón, and Maximilian.
A delegation of the Kickapoo people being received at the royal court.
Maximilian planned the monument to Christopher Columbus for the grand boulevard, now called Paseo de la Reforma. It was built during the regime of Porfirio Díaz.
Tomás Mejía
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José Tomás de la Luz Mejía Camacho, better known as Tomás Mejía, was a Mexican soldier of Otomi background, who consistently sided with the Conservative Party throughout its nineteenth century conflic
Tomás Mejía c. 1865
The outskirts of Querétaro at the time of Mejía's revolt
The Sierra Gorda
Mejía (right) in a set of cameo portraits portraying the monarchs and the leading generals of the Second Mexican Empire.