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TIL of the Second Mexican Empire where Napoleon ruthlessly took advantage of a distracted America post Civil-War by engaging in an imperial plan to annex Mexico into the French sovereignty. Napoleon aimed to create a New Virginia Colony in central Mexico & exempted new colonists from paying taxes.

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