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THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN.

that time the Latin cause was lost. The victorious Yankees crossed the Texan frontier en masse, and, allured by the hopes of plunder, assumed the form of Juarist guerillas, and overran the Mexican provinces of Nuevo Leon, La Sonora, and Tamaulipas.