Maximilian I, the Emperor of Mexico, was executed by firing squad in Queretaro on June 19, 1867.
Maximilian, the youthful brother of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, was put in as Emperor of Mexico by French ruler Napoleon III and Mexican conservatives in 1864.
Maximilian’s help bled away rapidly, along with his personal concepts as a liberal reformer clashing along with his conservative supporters’ wishes, and the US backing the ousted republican authorities because the respectable authority in Mexico.
In the face of elevated US stress after the top of the Civil War, the French withdrew navy help and Mexican republicans re-took the nation and captured the Emperor.
Despite worldwide pleas for clemency, and thanks partly to his personal refusal to participate in an escape plan (at the least partially as a result of he felt it undignified to shave his eye-catching beard), Maximilian confronted the firing squad as ordered by President Benito Juarez.
His final phrases have been: “I forgive everyone, and I ask everyone to forgive me. May my blood which is about to be spilled end the bloodshed which has been experienced in my new motherland. Long live Mexico! Long live its independence!”
Source: www.9news.com.au
