Maximilian of Mexico: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire | Part 2 | US Civil War, Franz Josef and the Catholic Church |Ancient to Recent I Episode 27

Maximilian of Mexico: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire | Part 2 | US Civil War, Franz Josef and the Catholic Church |Ancient to Recent I Episode 27

In 1864, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria crossed the Atlantic to claim a crown forged in diplomacy, ambition, and illusion. What awaited him in Mexico was not the enlightened monarchy he imagined but a nation exhausted by war, divided by ideology, and pushed to the breaking point by foreign intervention.


This episode follows Maximilian and Carlota as they enter Mexico City in triumph, unaware that beneath the flags and cheering crowds lay political traps, conservative factions demanding vengeance, and relentless Republican resistance. Guided by French bayonets and pressured by Napoleon III, Maximilian attempted to rule as a liberal monarch. Instead, he found himself squeezed between a reactionary clergy, a skeptical people, and a war that refused to end.


From the fragile plebiscite engineered to legitimize his rule, to the bitter disputes between French generals and Mexican monarchists, the Second Mexican Empire rose quickly but its foundations were already crumbling. Meanwhile, far to the north, the outcome of the American Civil War would determine the fate of the entire enterprise.


Join Joseph Parkinson as he continues the gripping saga of the Habsburg experiment in the Americas, exploring the peak of Maximilian’s empire, its grandeur, its contradictions, and the storm gathering just beyond the horizon.


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