Carlota tried to rule Mexico with her husband Maximilian I before their empire fell, breaking her heart and her mind. Empress Carlota, painted in 1865 by Albert Gräfle, took a very active interest in ...
"Maximilian of Mexico before the Execution," by Jean-Paul Laurens (Wikimedia Commons) It was the greatest challenge to the Monroe Doctrine until the Cuban missile crisis exactly 100 years later. In ...