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Showing posts with label
Mexico
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Friday, 21 September 2012
Yucatan & the (British) Empire
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The US-Mexican war of 1846-8 and the Franco-Austrian involvement in Mexico in Maximilian's Adventure (1863-67) are fairly well known, bu...
Friday, 9 December 2011
Mr Hales´s Rockets and the Kossuth Affair
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In April 15th 1853 a large building in Lower Deptford Road, Rotherhithe belonging to a Mr Hale was raided by the police, finding 257 lb of ...
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Maximilian's Austrians - in action
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Mexico was very much an active posting for the Austrians, Poles and Hungarians of the Austrian Legion, and for example, most families were l...
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
Maximillian's Austrians - Puebla
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The mid 1860s saw several powers intervening in the chaos that was Mexico, France, Spain, the United States and Britain, but perhaps one of ...
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Thursday, 2 June 2011
Spain in 1860s America - Sources
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General sources for the period Illustrated London News (various online) New York Public Library (excellent for uniforms) http://digitalgalle...
Thursday, 26 May 2011
España vuelve - Spain's return to the Americas in the 1860s. Part 1
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The 1850s saw a remilitarisation of Spain, as Queen Isabella struggled to gain popularity by recapturing past glories. This started well wit...
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