MEXICO 1862 DESBOUISSONS LARGE UNUSUAL ANTIQUE ORIGINAL COLORED LITHOGRAPHIC MAP

Carte pour servir a l'Intelligence des Opérations Militaire au Mexique. Dressée d'après l'Atlas de Garcia y Curas, M.r de Humbolt et les documents Anglois et Espagnols, par E. Desbuissonx Géographe 1862.

Description: Striking and highly detailed fine unusual 1862 original colored lithographic map Louis Edouard Desbuissons's copper engraved map of Mexico, at the time of the Second French Invasion in Mexico.

The second French intervention in Mexico (Spanish: segunda intervención francesa en México), also known as the Second Franco-Mexican War (1861–1867), was a military invasion of the Republic of Mexico by the French Empire of Napoleon III, purportedly to force the collection of Mexican debts in conjunction with Great Britain and Spain. Mexican conservatives supported the invasion, since they had been defeated by the liberal government of Benito Juárez in a three-year civil war. Defeated on the battlefield, conservatives sought the aid of France to effect regime change and establish a monarchy in Mexico, a plan that meshed with Napoleon III's plans to re-establish the presence of the French Empire in the Americas. Although the French invasion displaced Juárez's Republican government from the Mexican capital and the monarchy of Archduke Maximilian was established, the Second Mexican Empire collapsed within a few years. Material aid from the United States, whose four-year civil war ended in 1865, invigorated the Republican fight against the regime of Maximilian, and the 1866 decision of Napoleon III to withdraw military support for Maximilian's regime accelerated the monarchy's collapse. Maximilian and two Mexican generals were executed by firing squad on 19 June 1867, ending this period of Mexican history.
 
The map is filled with excellent topographic details on cities, towns, rivers, lakes, reliefs and political divisions.
 
Inset map titled "Carte des divisions politique du Mexique" at the top right quadrant adorns the map.

Date: 1862 ( dated )

Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 71,3 x 52,8

Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Map old original colored. Wide margins. Corners partially missing. Small foxing. Conditions are as you can see in the images. 

Mapmaker: Louis Edouard Desbuissons (1827-1908), a prolific mapmaker who worked in Paris for many decades in the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères.