re: Civil War - Was it a missed opportunity for foreign nations?

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...Mexico, we had within the previous 20 years fought a war with them. With concentration on the CSA, it seems mexico could have easily seized back at least some of the territories lost....

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Mexico was involved in its own internal battles for years and broke.They were willing to give US perpetual right of transit using Isthmus of Tehuantepec for cash to pay back Europe. US Senate didn’t ratify treaty. France then took advantage of our civil war causing inability to enforce Monroe Doctrine and tried to install its own puppet govt. After civil war we sold weapons to Mexican republicans to fight off nobles & France.

UnRatified Treaty

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which would have sold the perpetual right of transit to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to the U.S. for $4 million through the Mexican ports of Tehuantepec in the south, to Coatzacoalcos in the Gulf of Mexico free of any charge or duty, for military and commercial effects and troops. It even required Mexican troops to assist in the enforcement of the rights permanently granted to the U.S.

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Second French intervention in Mexico

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The Second French Intervention in Mexico was an invasion of Mexico, launched in late 1861...

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