Gene of Toledo you are truly an intellectual giant. The US kicked Maximillian out of Mexico did they? I could have sworn that Louis Napoleon, for a number of reasons that had nothing to do with North America, decided not to support his erstwhile relative and left him to face the Mexican revolutionaries alone. Maximillia, to his credit, actually believed that he was helping and after he was captured he turned down at least two rescue attempts and died alone, thousands of miles from Europe in front of a firing squad. The US in the Mexican wars had, by the way, taken all Mexican land North of the Rio Grande and never ceded it back, hardly the act of a country keen to give anything back. Also for information North America consumed the vast majority of all the cotton produced in the south, by the time of the Civil war the great textile mills of Europe were a mere shadow of their former glory.