The Superior Junta, a group of 35 Mexican aristocrats, appointed by General Elie-Frederic Forey, commander the French Expeditionary Force, offers the “imperial crown” to Archduke Maxmillen Habsburg of Austria.
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Major General Ambrose E. Burnside, commander of the compulsory Union Department of the Ohio, orders the closure of the Chicago (Illinois) Times for not supporting Republican (nationalist) President Abraham Lincoln, of the united States.
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References:
Bruce Catton, Glory Road, (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1952), 232.
Irving S. and Nell Kull, eds., A Short Chronology of American History, 1492-1950, (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1952), 142.
Everette B. Long, The Civil War Day by Day, 1861-1865, (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1971), 360-61.
French intervention in Mexico – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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