Civil War Mex General Miguel Miramon CDV Military Photo by Fredrick Co. Executed

  

4" inches x 3" inches Photo originally in album probably because of the four 4 corners of photo. Ww This is a rare and highly sought-after CDV military photo of Civil War. This CDV photo depicts Civil War Miguel Miramón, born Sept.

29, 1832, Mexico City-died June 19, 1867, near Querétaro, Mex. , Mexican soldier and politician, the leader of the forces that briefly established Maximilian as the emperor of Mexico. Born: September 29, 1832 Mexico City Mexico. Died: June 19, 1867 (aged 34) near Querétaro Mexico.

Educated at a military school, Miramón served in the Mexican army in the battles against the United States in 1847 and rose to the rank of colonel in 1855. The next year he participated in the struggle against the Liberal forces led first by the provisional president Ignacio Comonfort and later by Comonfort's successor, Benito Juárez. In the bitter, three-year civil war (1857-60) that ensued, Miramón succeeded Félix Zuloaga as leader and as temporary president of Mexico. When Liberal troops took Mexico City in December 1860, Miramón fled to Cuba and then to Europe. There he entered into negotiations with Napoleon III of France, who, for imperialistic reasons, persuaded Archduke Maximilian of Austria to assume the crown of Mexico.

He served as the Mexican minister to Germany (1864-66) but rushed back to Mexico when it appeared that Maximilian would abdicate his tottering throne. Miramón was instrumental in persuading the Emperor to continue the struggle and was appointed one of the leaders of the imperial army. Defeated by the forces of Juárez at Querétaro, he was taken prisoner and Executed on a nearby hill with the Emperor. Emperor Maximilian, 1867 Maximilian saying,'We shall soon meet in Heaven. Then turning to General Miramon he said:'Brave men are respected by sovereigns.

Permit me to give you the place of honor. Thus speaking he placed General Miramon in the centre... Very fine cdv of General Miguel Miramón, who was executed along with Emperor Maximilian and General Tomas Mejia.