Battles of the French intervention in Mexico

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Chapters: Battle of Acapulco, Battle of Barranca Seca, Battle of Camarón, Battle of La Carbonera, Battle of Miahuatlán, Battle of Puebla, Battle of San Juan Bautista, Battle of San Pablo del Monte, Battle of San Pedro, Battle of Tacámbaro, Capture of Mazatlán, List of battles of the French intervention in Mexico, Siege of Mexico City, Third Battle of Puebla. Excerpt: The Siege of Mexico City was a military engagement between the Mexican Republican forces and Emperor Maximilian's troops encompassing the siege of the city in 1867 during the French intervention in Mexico. It was the last armed conflict of the Second Mexican Empire and the fall of the city resulted in the transition of the Empire into the Republic led by Benito Juárez. Mexico City was occupied by the French Army. The French decided to withdrew the last of their corps on 5 February 1867 a week after the Emperor Maximilian also left Mexico City for Querétaro accompanied by his Imperial guard. On the 21st, Republican General Vicente Riva Palacio and Diego Álvarez Benítez arrived near the city with 4,000 soldiers. On the Imperialist side, General Leonardo Márquez marched to assume supreme command of the city. On his way to Mexico City Máquez was routed at San Lorenzo by Díaz. Márquez fled with his cavalry leaving the rest of the infantry behind. Colonel Kodolitsch saved the day by marching out and forming a rearguard to protect the retreating troops and bring them into the city. On 12 May all the foreign commanders agreed that they needed to prepare a secondary plan in case General Márquez' actions endangered their own men. They elected Colonel Khevenhüller as the acting Commander-in-Chief in case of the necessity to remove Márquez. They also agreed that in negotiating any ceasefire agreement they would act together to reach their own terms separately from the Mexicans. The capital was defended by 400 cannons. On the 2nd Republican forces seized the railroad line of Apisaco and started to transport the war material from Puebla by train. On the 15th General Porfirio Díaz arrived at Villa Guadalupe, where he tried to surround Villa Guadalupe, but was prevented by the Imperial artillery. The French counterguerillas who defended the village withdrew to the fortified garitas at San Lázaro, Vallejo and in the Peralvillo. These positions were already entrenched and defended by