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SEPARATION OF TEXAS
Location: Texas and Mexico
Description: the government of Mexico gave permission to Stephen Austin to take 300 american families to live in texas only if they followed their rules, however they started creating their own rules and made a declaration of independence, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was obligated to accept it
Main characters: Stephen Austin, Antonio López de Santa Anna -
PASTRY WAR
Location: Mexico
Description: A French pastry cook that lived in Tacubaya claimed that his restaurant was damaged by some Mexican Army officers. The cook made a demand for 600,000 pesos by sending a fleet to Veracruz, the principal Mexican port on the Gulf of Mexico. The French bombarded the fortress of San Juan de Ulúa
Main Characters: Antonio López de Santa Anna -
WAR WITH THE UNITED STATES
Location: Mexico
Description: 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.
Main Characters: Antonio López de Santa Anna -
FRENCH INTERVENTION
Location:Mexico
Description:was an invasion of Mexico in late 1861 by the Second French Empire, supported in the beginning by the United Kingdom and Spain. It followed President Benito Juárez's suspension of interest payments to foreign countries on 17 July 1861, which angered these three major creditors of Mexico.
Min characters:Benito Juarez,Napoleon III,MaximilianoII -
SECOND EMPIRE WITH MAXIMILIAN
Location: Mexico
Description: It was created by Napoleon III of France, who tried to use the Mexican adventure to recover part of the greatness of the previous Napoleonic era. The Second French Intervention in Mexico put the Austrian archduke, Ferdinand Maximilian of Habsburg on the throne of Mexico as Maximilian I of Mexico.
Main characters: Napoleon III of France, Maximilian of Habsburg, Carlota and Benito Juárez.
