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Pastry war
Conflict between Mexico and France, arising from the claim of a French pastry, that Mexican officers had damaged his restaurant. Foreign powers pressed the Mexican government to pay for losses that some of their nationals suffered during disturbances. France decided to demand for 600k pesos by sending a fleet to Veracruz. After bombarding the fortress of San Juan de Ulúa, and occupying the city, the French won a guarantee of payment through the good offices of Britain and withdrew their fleet. -
Mexican-American War
Spanish Guerra de 1847, was a war between the United States and Mexico stemming from the United States’ annexation of Texas in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (U.S. claim). The war—in which U.S. forces were consistently victorious—resulted in the United States’ acquisition of more than 500,000 square miles (1,300,000 square km) of Mexican territory extending westward from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean. -
Separation of Texas
In 1821 Texas was part of Mexico, but Americans arrived and brought slaves,, Texans wanted to separate from Mexico because they were not agree with the president laws. Later in 1836, Santa Anna took an army to San antonio and fought against 200 Texans, he won but Congress declared war. Americans captured Mexico City in 1847. In 1848, Mexico signed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and Mexico agreed to the annexation of Texas and the Rio Grande as the border between Texas and Mexico. -
French intervention
The French intervention in Mexico (Spanish: Segunda Intervención Francesa en México), also known as the Maximilian Affair, War of the French Intervention, and the Franco-Mexican War, was an invasion of Mexico by the Second French Empire, supported in the beginning by Great Britain and Spain. It followed President Benito Juárez's suspension of interest payments to foreign countries on 17 July 1861, which angered Mexico's major creditors: Spain, France and Britain. -
Second Empire with Maximilian
Maximilian, in full Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph, archduke of Austria and the emperor of Mexico.
In 1863 he accepted the offer of the Mexican throne, falsely believing that the Mexican people had voted him their king; in fact, the offer was the result of a scheme between conservative Mexicans, who wished to overturn the liberal government of President Benito Juárez, and the French emperor Napoleon III, who wanted to collect a debt from Mexico and further his imperialistic ambitions there.
