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Emperor Napoleon III was eager to establish a second Mexican empire favorable to the French, an outpost in the New World that would serve as a kind of replacement for all that French land his ...

Repeatedly, we have had hints through the Mexican correspondents of the French ... some official standing in the new Empire, necessarily writes under reserve. But the correspondent of another ...