"The Mexican Imperial Army " Topic

"During the early years of the so-called Mexican Adventure the war against the republican rebels under Benito Juarez was, of course, carried out by the French Imperial Army of Napoleon III. The Miramar Convention signed by the French and Maximilian stipulated that French troops would remain in Mexico for three years and that the famous French Foreign Legion would stay for six years.

It was also called upon to subsidize the Mexican Imperial Army which was officially formed in the fall of 1863 at the request of Emperor Napoleon III.

For both political and practical reasons he was anxious that a large local military force would be established in Mexico to show that the new Mexican Empire was truly independent, to relieve some of the burdens on his own men and to assist in the ongoing war against the rebel guerillas. Originally labeled as a Franco-Mexican army it soon became the full fledged Mexican Imperial Army and consisted of regular army troops, auxiliary forces to augment the regulars and the rural militia…"
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