The hero Mexico needed, but not the one it deserved.
>Maximilian expressed progressive European political ideas, favouring the establishment of a limited monarchy sharing powers with a democratically elected congress. He inspired passage of laws to abolish child labour, limit working hours, and abolish a system of land tenancy that virtually amounted to serfdom among the Indians.
>One of Maximilian's first acts as Emperor was to restrict working hours and abolish child labour. He cancelled all debts for peasants over 10 pesos, restored communal property and forbade all forms of corporal punishment. He also broke the monopoly of the Hacienda stores and decreed that henceforth peons could no longer be bought and sold for the price of their debt.
>Maximilian and his Imperial troops were besieged in the city of Santiago de Querétaro. The city falls through betrayal after 72 days.
>Many of the crowned heads of Europe and other prominent figures (including the eminent liberals Victor Hugo and Giuseppe Garibaldi) sent telegrams and letters to Mexico pleading desperately for the Emperor's life to be spared.
>Felix Salm-Salm and his wife masterminded a plan and bribed the jailors to allow Maximilian to escape execution. However, Maximilian would not go through with the plan because he felt that shaving his beard to avoid recognition would ruin his dignity if he were to be recaptured.
>The sentence was carried out in the Cerro de las Campanas at 6:40am on the morning of 19 June 1867
>He spoke only in Spanish and gave each of his executioners a gold coin not to shoot him in the head so that his mother could see his face. His last words were, "I forgive everyone, and I ask everyone to forgive me. May my blood, which is about to be shed, be for the good of the country. Viva Mexico, viva la independencia!"
Maximilian von Habsburg
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>mfw up till this day the yellow on our flag represents the Habsburgs
good feel
And a literal Indio chimped out and had him killed because muh democracy
>because muh democracy
More like reeeeeeeeeeee he's a foreigner reeeeeeee
>Maximilian would not go through with the plan because he felt that shaving his beard to avoid recognition would ruin his dignity if he were to be recaptured.
Seriously? He chose to die to save that thing? Kek. Sounds totally cool though, wtf Mexico?!
And then he tried to sell the country to foreigners.
>>Felix Salm-Salm and his wife masterminded a plan and bribed the jailors to allow Maximilian to escape execution. However, Maximilian would not go through with the plan because he felt that shaving his beard to avoid recognition would ruin his dignity if he were to be recaptured.
What is it about Mexico that turns everyone living there into a retard?
Its called honor, Franco, you should try having it some time.
>honor
>hurr durr I'm going to let myself be killed because I don't want to shave
he was the proto-soi boy
He was fucking naive