Word: napoleonism
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...first Maximilian refused, but four years later under pressure from Napoleon III and after General Forey had captured the City of Mexico, he decided to accept the crown, contrary, however, to his brother's advice...
...June, 1864, Maximilian arrived at Mexico City. From the first he was unpopular, with the clerics because he was too liberal, and with the populace, because he was a foreigner. The European troops which supported him were detested by the natives. In the summer of 1886 Napoleon III decided to withdraw his forces. Maximilian was being deserted by the man who had brought him to his position and was using him as a pawn. His wife appealed to the emperor of the French to save her husband; he refused. She went, then, on an appeal to the Pope, but here...
Thus ended Maximilian, the Mexican empire, and Napoleon's Mexican adventure...
Died. Princess Laetitia Napoleon Bonaparte, 59, aunt of King Vittorio Emanuele ILL; widow of Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, onetime (1870-73) King of Spain; daughter of Prince ("Plon Plon") Napoleon; granddaughter of Jerome Bonaparte (brother of Napoleon I and King of Westphalia, who married Elizabeth Patterson of Baltimore) ; hence cousin of Charles Joseph Bonaparte, onetime (1905-06) Secretary of the Navy and (1906-09) U. S. Attorney General; at Turin, Italy...
...quickly saw the application of this military defense to his own problem. In both cases, a powerful blow was directed at the centre of the line, which could hardly be withstood by ordinary methods of defense. To substitute ends and tackles of a football team on the defensive for Napoleon's cavalry was a natural step, and the centre could be reenforced by the backs, just as the French centre was strengthened by reserves...