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CONTENTS.
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| CHAPTER VII. | |
| MAXIMILIAN IN MEXICO. | |
| 1864 | |
| Conciliating Policy and Conservative Jealousy — Growing Dislike of the French — Maximilian's Weakness of Character — Reorganization of the Army — Excursions to the Interior, and Maximilian's Inferences therefrom — Guerrillas Termed Brigands, and Ordered Hunted down — Church Question — Nuncio in Mexico — Commission to Rome — Property Confiscation — Juarist Reverses | 149 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT. | |
| 1865. | |
| Provisional Constitution — Personal Guarantee — No Slavery — Fondness of Maximilian for Law-making — Promotion of Colonization — Finances — Cabinet — Maximilian Protests against his Austrian Renunciation — French Loan and French Troops — Attitude of the United States — Republicanism Gains Strength — Maximilian Alarmed — Bazaine Blamed — Terrorism | 171 |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| THE EMPIRE A FAILURE. | |
| 1865-1866. | |
| Capitulation of Oajaco — Army Movements — Battles and Sieges — War Measures — Presidential Term — New Republican Plan of Campaign — Sympathy in the United States — Napoleon Recognizes his Failure — The United States Demand his Withdrawal — Maximilian Overwhelmed — Charlotte Visits Europe — She Pleads in Vain with Napoleon — Then Seeks Consolation at Rome — Her Sad Fate | 188 |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| IMPERIAL HOME LIFE AND VICISSITUDES. | |
| 1866. | |
| Money Matters — New Treaty — Army Reorganization — Austrians Discontented — Domestic Affairs — Character of Charlotte — Maximilian's Habits — Hours of Labor, Food, and Exercise — Dress — Amusements — Religious Shows — Washing Feet — The Emperor's Cold Wit — Conservatist Plot — Santa Anna — New Policy of Maximilian — Bazaine's Quarrel and Recall — Castelnau — Abdication Urged — Ortega and the United States — Maximilian at Orizaba | 214 |
