The Ministry of Culture explains that a group “made up of members of the Conservative Party approached the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Habsburg to offer him the imperial crown of ...

It confirms, in fact, all that we have said of the project, conceived at Paris and presented at Vienna, of placing the Archduke MAXIMILIAN on the throne of Mexico. At any rate, on this point we ...

And, as Shawcross writes, Archduke Maximilian “was a Habsburg, a Catholic, and, above all, available.” So, in January 1862, a French army reached Veracruz. This force soon made its way to Mexico City, ...

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand led to events that meant even if people didn’t want to fight, they had made promises which had to be kept. 28th July 1914 – Austria-Hungary ...