Earl Russell to Lord Bloomfield Foreign Office, February 5, 1862 (Extract) With reference to the subject of the offer of the Crown of Mexico to the Archduke Maximilian of Austria, I have to instruct you to inform Count Rechberg that it is the intention of Her Majesty's Government to abide strictly by the terms of the Convention of the 31st of October, concluded between Great Britain, France, and Spain, relative to the intervention in Mexico. Back to Table of Contents: Booklet No. 8, Mexico 1861-67 Back to El Dorado List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 by The South and Central Military Historians Society This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com