The Imperialists were able to gain control of most of the nation but supporters of the Mexican Republic continued to wage war against the Empire. Mexican conservatives, including many in the Mexican nobility, had played a role in instigating the birth of the Empire -adding an element of civil war to the French Intervention. His wife and empress of Mexico was the Belgian princess Charlotte of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, known as ‘Carlota’. Chosen as the emperor of Mexico was Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. Emperor Napoleon III of France wanted to establish a monarchist ally in the Americas as a restraint upon the growing power of the United States. The Second Mexican Empire ( Spanish: Segundo Imperio Mexicano), officially the Mexican Empire ( Spanish: Imperio Mexicano), was a constitutional monarchy established in Mexico as a client state of the Second French Empire during the Second French intervention in Mexico.
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