Miramón, Miguel

Miramón, Miguel

▪ president of Mexico

born Sept. 29, 1832, Mexico City
died June 19, 1867, near Querétaro, Mex.
 Mexican soldier and politician, the leader of the forces that briefly established Maximilian as the emperor of Mexico.

      Educated at a military school, Miramón served in the Mexican army in the battles against the United States in 1847 and rose to the rank of colonel in 1855. The next year he participated in the struggle against the Liberal forces led first by the provisional president Ignacio Comonfort and later by Comonfort's successor, Benito Juárez. In the bitter, three-year civil war (1857–60) that ensued, Miramón succeeded Félix Zuloaga as leader and as temporary president of Mexico.

      When Liberal troops took Mexico City in December 1860, Miramón fled to Cuba and then to Europe. There he entered into negotiations with Napoleon III of France, who, for imperialistic reasons, persuaded Archduke Maximilian of Austria to assume the crown of Mexico. Miramón returned to Mexico in 1863 as the grand marshal of Maximilian's empire. He served as the Mexican minister to Germany (1864–66) but rushed back to Mexico when it appeared that Maximilian would abdicate his tottering throne. Miramón was instrumental in persuading the Emperor to continue the struggle and was appointed one of the leaders of the imperial army. Defeated by the forces of Juárez at Querétaro, he was taken prisoner and executed on a nearby hill with the Emperor.

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