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- Napoleon had now selected the Archduke Maximilian as a useful puppet to install on the Mexican throne.
- ALL STARTED IN 1863
- I am going to tell him that the Mexicans want him as their governor.
- Napoleon
- I do not know about installing on the Mexican throne.
- Maximiliano
- You should go to Mexico. The Mexicans have chosen you as their governor.
- Carlota
- Maximiliano and Carlota (Charlotte) crossed the Atlantic, they arrived in Veracruz at the end of May 1864 and were received in Mexico City.
- Finally we arrived!
- Yes, we finally arrived!
- Maximilian took a more progressive path, canceled both serfdom and child labor and took on the high Roman Catholic clergy.
- I will cancel the serfdom and child labor.
- I also refuse to declare Roman Catholic Christianity the only religion allowed in the country and to restore the massive ecclesiastical properties.
- On June 19 of 1867, at the age of 34, Maximilian was executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, north of Mexico City because the Mexicans were displeased with him.
- This is your end!
- Firing squad
- Nooo!
- His body was returned to Austria for burial. His death marked the end of the Second Mexican Empire.
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