Proceso de Fernando Maximiliano de Hapsburgo, Miguel Miramón y Tomás Mejía

In the year following Maximilian’s downfall and execution some of the principal documents occasioned by his trial were gathered together and published. In its series “México Heroico” Editorial Jus now reprints this collection. While not a verbatim transcript of the proceedings, it contains several of the principal speeches of prosecution and defense. No effort has apparently been made to edit the documents, except for the addition of a brief summary before each one for easy identification. In his prologue Fuentes Mares sets the legal background of the trial, denying that Maximilian’s case was parallel to that of Jefferson Davis, who went free some years after Appomattox.