LITTLE HOPE LEFT FOR MAXIMILIAN.
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entertained of reinforcements of troops for Maximilian? Thus, then, the United States followed step by step the actions of French policy, counting, nearly to a man, the detachments which were necessary to keeping up the number of our effective force. Even the recruiting of Austrians was forbidden. The government of France had not for a long time been subject to dictation so tyrannical as this! The only source of military recruitment left to Maximilian consisted for the future in re-enlisting those discharged soldiers of the French force who, instead of re-embarking for Europe, consented to enter his service amongst the cazadores.
