The idea of the intervention was not only born by initiative of Napoleon III . Before the landing of the French imperial troops, the conservatives, who had been defeated in the final War of Reform, had contacted numerous courts in Europe to offer the country to some European prince[1], and their r
Alfred, sometimes written Ælfred (born between 846 and 849 and died on October 26, 899), was king of Wessex from 871 until his death, and king of all the Anglo-Saxons from 878, without ever controlling all of English territory . Fourth son of King Æthelwulf and most likely the latters first wife, Os
We could place the germ of the War of Reform in the American intervention of 1846. The young American army managed to defeat the Mexican in a series of decisive battles. The defeat in the war produced great discomfort in Mexico, since it meant the loss of important territories in the north, approxim
Detail of the Huei Tzompantli, an Aztec skull tower dating from the end of the 15th century, discovered in Mexico City • AFP These are 119 new human skulls, impaled horizontally, which have just been exhumed in the basement of Mexico City, the ancient capital of the Aztecs, Tenochtitlán, which w