History of the United States I / Unit 15 USH1 2153 short lesson, about 20 seconds
France in Mexico
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The idea
Napoleon the Third treated the American war as an opportunity to restore French imperial holdings, and a French fleet captured Veracruz in eighteen sixty-one.
In practice
French forces advancing on Mexico City and being defeated by Mexican forces in eighteen sixty-two.
Where people slip
France conquered Mexico and held it until eighteen sixty-seven, using the Civil War as cover for its own colonial project.
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