Siege of Mexico City

Siege of Mexico City
	Part of the Second French intervention in Mexico
	; Austrian volunteers in Mexico, 1866
Date	12 April - 21 June 1867 ; (2 months, 1 week and 2 days)
Location	Mexico City, Mexico
Result	Mexican Republican Victory •Collapse of the Second Mexican Empire •Withdrawal of the French from Mexico
Belligerents
Mexican Empire; France; Austria-Hungary;	Mexican Republic; American volunteers;
Commanders and leaders
Leonardo Márquez; Ramon Tabera; Tomás O'Horán [a]; Santiago Vidaurri; Manuel Ramirez Arellano; Johann Karl Khevenhüller Armin Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord † ; Alfons von Kodolitsch ; János Csizmadia	Porfirio Díaz; Félix Díaz; Manuel González Flores; Venancio Leyva; Edelmiro Mayer; Mariano Escobedo; John Sobieski
Units involved
1st brigade of infantry; Regiment of Quiroga 18th regiment of infantry; Regiment of chasseurs á cheval (French light cavalry); Regiment of gendarmes Regiment of hussars	Eastern Army; American Legion of Honor
Casualties and losses
100+ killed; 304 wounded; 1,000 captured	Unknown

The siege of Mexico City was an 1867 military engagement in the Second French intervention in Mexico between Republican forces, aided by the United States, and Emperor Maximilian's troops, aided by the French Empire and Austria-Hungary, encompassing in the siege of the city. It was the last armed conflict of the Second Mexican Empire and the fall of the city resulted in the transition of the Empire into the Republic led by Benito Juárez.^[7]^: 283

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Agnes Salm-Salm (1868). My diary in Mexico in 1867, including the last days of the Emperor Maximilian. Vol. II. London: Richard Bentley. ISBN 978-1147828542. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
^ Cite error: The named reference Stevenson was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Porfirio Díaz; Chantal López; Omar Cortés; Matías Romero (1894). Memorias del General Porfirio Díaz [Memories of General Porfirio Díaz.] (PDF) (in Spanish). Mexico City: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. ISBN 978-9703504169. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
^ Péter Torbágyi (2008). Magyar kivándorlás Latin-Amerikába az első világháború előtt [Hungarian emigration to Latin America until the outbreak of World War I.] (PDF) (in Hungarian). Szeged, Hungary: University of Szeged. p. 43. ISBN 978-963-482-937-9. Retrieved 6 June 2012.
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^ ^a ^b Lawrence Douglas Taylor Hanson (1987). Voluntarios extranjeros en los ejércitos liberales mexicanos, 1854-1867 [Foreign volunteers in the Mexican liberal armies, 1854-1867] (PDF). Historia Mexicana (in Spanish). Vol. III. Mexico City: El Colegio de México. ISSN 0185-0172. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 June 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
^ James Creelman (1911). Díaz, master of Mexico. New York: D. Appleton and Company. ISBN 1444660063. Retrieved 25 July 2012.

[Salm-1] Agnes Salm-Salm (1868). My diary in Mexico in 1867, including the last days of the Emperor Maximilian. Vol. II. London: Richard Bentley. ISBN 978-1147828542. Retrieved 25 July 2012.

[Stevenson-2] Cite error: The named reference Stevenson was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Díaz-3] Porfirio Díaz; Chantal López; Omar Cortés; Matías Romero (1894). Memorias del General Porfirio Díaz [Memories of General Porfirio Díaz.] (PDF) (in Spanish). Mexico City: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes. ISBN 978-9703504169. Retrieved 25 July 2012.

[Torbágyi-4] Péter Torbágyi (2008). Magyar kivándorlás Latin-Amerikába az első világháború előtt [Hungarian emigration to Latin America until the outbreak of World War I.] (PDF) (in Hungarian). Szeged, Hungary: University of Szeged. p. 43. ISBN 978-963-482-937-9. Retrieved 6 June 2012.

[NYT5-5] Cite error: The named reference NYT5 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Hanson-6] Lawrence Douglas Taylor Hanson (1987). Voluntarios extranjeros en los ejércitos liberales mexicanos, 1854-1867 [Foreign volunteers in the Mexican liberal armies, 1854-1867] (PDF). Historia Mexicana (in Spanish). Vol. III. Mexico City: El Colegio de México. ISSN 0185-0172. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 June 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2012.

[Creelman-7] James Creelman (1911). Díaz, master of Mexico. New York: D. Appleton and Company. ISBN 1444660063. Retrieved 25 July 2012.

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