The second Mexican Empire promises to prove as ephemeral as the first was durable. That of the Montezumas, which CORTEZ overthrew, had existed for centuries, but the empire which the Third ...

With that caveat, “News From the Empire” is, among many other things, about the unhappy adventures of Maximilian and Carlota, the European royals (respectively of Hapsburg and Bourbon descent ...

Iturbide was crowned on July 21, 1822 in the Cathedral of Mexico City, as Augustine I.The government of Iturbide lasted until March 19, 1823, a period in which the country experienced absolutism ...

France invaded Mexico under Emperor Napoleon III, citing unpaid debts as a pretext to expand French influence and establish a ...

The Second Empire of Mexico’s collapse forever changed history, and yet, as author M.M. McAllen says in “Maximilian and Carlota,” her enthralling, exhaustively researched and fresh re ...

In the seventh century A.D. the Snake rulers presided over this capital city—in what today is southern Mexico—and its largest structure, a pyramid 180 feet tall.

Empire Builders: Mexico is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung ...

There was no doubt that the tower was one of the skull edifices mentioned by Andres de Tapia, a Spanish soldier who accompanied Cortes in the 1521 conquest of Mexico, Barrera said.

Empire Builders: Mexico. The War of Independence. Episode 102 | 51m 51s Video has Closed Captions | CC. The War of Independence maps the violent struggle by Mexicans to break free, the subsequent ...

This Belgian princess became empress of Mexico. It all fell apart from there. Carlota tried to rule Mexico with her husband Maximilian I before their empire fell, breaking her heart and her mind.