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  1. Emperor of Mexico 1864-67. He accepted that
  2. title when the French emperor Napoleon III's
  3. troops occupied the country, but encountered
  4. resistance from the deposed president Benito
  5. Juarez. In 1866, after the French troops
  6. withdrew on the insistence the USA,
  7. Maximilian was captured by Mexican
  8. republicans and shot.
  9.