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
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Show Notes
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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