Franco-Mexican Alliance (The Golden Path)

The Franco-Mexician Alliance was created followed Mexician President Benito Juárez's suspension of interest payments to foreign countries on 17 July 1861, which angered Mexico's major creditors: Spain, France and Britain. However, Juárez sent a delegation to Napolean III of France to seek a solution to the Mexico's finantial problems. On October 20, 1861, the France asked  Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph of Austria to lead a delegation to Mexico to try and resolve the problem. It was know at the time that Mexician monarcist had already approached Maximilian with