Independent Order of Good Templars Mexican Army dispensation letter, 1866

Independent Order of Good Templars Mexican Army dispensation letter, 1866

This document demonstrates how American volunteered in the Mexican Army during the second French intervention in Mexico (Spanish: segunda intervención francesa en México), also known as the Second Franco-Mexican War (1861–1867), which 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.

Collection of the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, Lexington, Massachusetts. MA 850.002

1866

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