INDEPENDENT MEXICO

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  • SEPARATION OF TEXAS.

    SEPARATION OF TEXAS.
    UNITED STATES, MEXICO & TEXAS.
    ANTONIO LÓPEZ DE SANTANA AND SAM HOUSTON.
    "BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO"
    THEY DIDN´T LIKE LAWS MADE BY SANTANA SO THEY DECIDED TO FIGTH FOR INDEPENDENCE. SANTANA TOOK AN ARMY TO SAN ANTONIO TO TAKE A FORT CALLED THE ALAMO, SAM HOUSTON LEAD THEM AND CAPTURED SANTANA.

  • PASTRY WAR.

    PASTRY WAR.
    FRANCE & MEXICO.
    ANTONIO LÓPEZ DE SANTANA WAS THE PRESIDENT IN THAT MOMENT.
    THE CAUSE OF THE WAR WAS A CLAIM OF A FRENCH PASTRY COOK, BECAUSE IN THE MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE IT HAS BEEN DAMAGE HIS RESTAURANT. SINCE THAT MOMENT FRANCE STARTED TO SAY THAT MEXICO HAD A DEBT OF $600,000 AND IT INCREASE.

  • FRENCH INTERVENTION.

    FRENCH INTERVENTION.
    IT BEGAN IN NOVEMBER WITH THE NAVAL BLOCKADE OF SOME MEXICAN PORTS AND THE CAPTURE OF THE FORTRESS OF SAN JUAN DE ULÚA IN VERACRUZ BY THE FRENCH FORCES SENT BY KING LOUISE PHILIPPE. IT ENDED SEVERAL MONTHS LATER IN MARCH 1839 WITH A BRITISH-BROKERED PEACE. THE INTERVENTION FOLLOWED MANY CLAIMS BY FRENCH BY FRENCH NATIONALS OF LOSSES DUE TO UNREST IN MEXICO.

  • WAR WITH UNITED STATES.

    WAR WITH UNITED STATES.
    IT PITTED A POLITICALLY DIVIDED AND MILITARY UNPREPARED MEXICO AGAINST THE EXPANSIONIST-MINDED ADMINISTRATION OF U.S PRESIDENT JAMES K. POLK, WHO BELIEVED UNITED STATES HAD A "MANIFEST DESTINY" TO SPREAD ACROSS THE CONTINENT. MEXICO HAD LOST ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF ITS TERRITORY; CALIFORNIA, UTAH, NEVADA, ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO.

  • SECOND IMPIRE WITH MAXIMILIAN.

    SECOND IMPIRE WITH MAXIMILIAN.
    IT WAS AN EMPIRE ESTABLISHED DURING THE SECOND FRENCH INTERVENTION IN MEXICO AND NAPOLEON III DECLARED MAXIMILIAN OF HABSBURGO AS THE EMPEROR OF MEXICO. THE EMPIRE CAME TO THE END IN 1867 WITH THE EXECUTION OF MAXIMILIAN.