Ep 192: Raymond Jonas on Europe’s War on the Monroe Doctrine (~165 years ago)

School of War · Apr 25, 2025 · 48m

Raymond Jonas, Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor in History at the University of Washington and author of Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire, joins the show to discuss a failed-but-spectacular 19th Century attempt by European powers to undermine the Monroe Doctrine.

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Times

• 01:42 Introduction

• 03:31 Transatlantic relations

• 05:20 Europe distracted

• 08:39 Secession and unrest

• 12:46 Maximillian I

• 17:55 Continental powers

• 20:01 Britain, France and Spain

• 26:13 What the Americans did right

• 28:23 Napoleon III

• 30:09 Mexico and the Confederacy

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