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Entrance of the Viện cơ mật in the Imperial city of Hue, Vietnam

Casket of Maximilian I of Mexico (1832-1867) (r. 1864-1867).

Maximilian, a Hapsburg Archduke, was chosen by Mexican monarchists to be the emperor of Mexico. He alienated his conservative backers by enacting liberal policies. His regime was propped up by French troops but they started to leave in 1866. The French had to leave because the United States stopped fighting itself and started to enforce the Monroe Doctrine (in which the US opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere because that's the US's job). Left on his own, Maximilian was executed by the reestablished republican government.

Vienna, Austria