Maximilian

[mak-suh-mil-yuhn]

noun

1. 1832–67, archduke of Austria: emperor of Mexico 1864–67.

2. a male given name.

Maximilian

/ ˌmæksɪˈmɪlɪən /

noun

1. full name Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph. 1832–67, archduke of Austria and emperor of Mexico (1864–67). After the French had partially conquered Mexico, he was offered the throne but was defeated and shot by the Mexicans under Juárez

Example Sentences

Through the next 60 years, Mexico endured economic collapse, the installation of a Habsburg prince as Emperor Maximilian I, seven constitutions and four major wars, including a catastrophic conflict with the Manifest Destiny-driven United States, to whom Mexico ceded half its territory in 1848.

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The first was none other than Maximilian, the ill-fated Hapsburg royal, who, with French military backing, was installed as “emperor” of Mexico in 1864.

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In Maximilian’s view, the penacho “would have afforded him the badges of rulership and presented him as an heir to the Aztec emperors in the eyes of his subjects,” Achim wrote in West 86th, a cultural journal.

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But Maximilian’s older sibling, Franz Joseph I, the Austrian emperor, balked at relinquishing the headdress.

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Ultimately, Maximilian never shed the stigma of being a foreign interloper.

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