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See also:MAXIMILIAN (1832—1867) , See also:emperor of See also:Mexico, second son of the See also:archduke See also:Francis See also:Charles of See also:Austria, was See also:born in the See also:palace of Schonbrunn, on the 6th of See also:July 1832. He was a particularly See also:clever boy, showed considerable See also:taste for the arts, and See also:early displayed an See also:interest in See also:science, especially See also:botany. He was trained for the See also:navy, and threw himself into this career with so much zeal that he quickly See also:rose to high command, and was mainly instrumental in creating the See also:naval See also:port of See also:Trieste and the See also:fleet with which Tegethoff won his victories in the See also:Italian See also:War. He had some reputation as a Liberal, and this led, in See also:February 1857, to his See also:appointment as See also:viceroy of the See also:Lombardo-Venetian See also:kingdom; in the same See also:year he married the Princess See also:Charlotte, daughter of See also:Leopold I., See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the Belgians. On the outbreak of the war of 1859 he retired into private See also:life, chiefly at Trieste, near which he built the beautiful See also:chateau of Miramar. In this same year he was first approached by Mexican exiles with the proposal to become the See also:candidate
for the See also:throne of Mexico. He did not at first accept, but sought to satisfy his restless See also:desire for See also:adventure by a botanical expedition to the tropical forests of See also:Brazil. In 1863, however, under pressure from See also:Napoleon III., and after See also:General See also:Forey's See also:capture of the See also:city of Mexico and the See also:plebiscite which confirmed his See also:proclamation of the See also:empire, he consented to accept the See also:crown. This decision was contrary to the See also:advice of his See also:brother, the emperor Francis See also:Joseph, and involved the loss of all his rights in Austria. Maximilian landed at See also:Vera Cruz on the 28th of May 1864; but from the very outset he found himself involved in difficulties of the most serious See also:kind, which in 1866 made apparent to almost every one outside of Mexico the See also:necessity for his abdicating. Though urged to this course by Napoleon himself, whose withdrawal from Mexico was the final See also:blow to his cause, Maximilian refused to See also:desert his followers. With-See also:drawing, in February 1867, to See also:Queretaro, he there sustained a See also:siege for several See also:weeks, but on the 15th of May resolved to See also:attempt an See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape through the enemy's lines. He was, however, arrested before he could carry out this See also:resolution, and after trial by See also:court-See also:martial was condemned to See also:death. The See also:sentence was carried out on the 19th of See also:June 1867. His remains were conveyed to See also:Vienna, where they were buried in the imperial vault early in the following year. (See MEx1co.)
Maximilian's papers were published at See also:Leipzig in 1867, in seven volumes, under the See also:title Aus meinem Leben, Reiseskizzen, Aphorismen, Gedichte. See See also:Pierre de la Gorce, Hist. du Second Empire, IV., liv. See also:xxv. ii. (See also:Paris, 1904) ; See also:article by von Hoffinger in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, xxi. 70, where authorities are cited.
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