The history of the multi-national Imperial Mexican Army is highly interesting and not yed deeply researched.
In my collection of Imperial Austrian awards, I've recently added a group of orders, decorations and papers, belonged to a former Modenese (from the Duchy of Modena, ruled by the house of Habsburg-Este) cavalry officer who, after the fall of this former Italian state, entered in the Austrian cavalry, then left for the Mexican "adventure", becoming Senior Lieutenant in the Lancers of the "Cuerpo de Voluntarios Austro-Belgas".
During his service in Emperor Maximilian's Army, he received the Knight's Cross of the Guadalupe Order (the letter, accompanying the award document, informs that the order was decerned "...por su bizarria y valoroso comportamiento en el combate de Ahuacatlan, el 17 de Julio (1865)"; more, the Bronze Medal for Military Merit (award document dated April 10th, 1865), and the French Medal for the Mexican Campaign.
After the fall of the Mexican Empire, he returned to Austria, actively serving as an Oberleutnant in the 9th Dragoon Regiment "FML Prinz zu Solms-Brannenfels", eventually dying in Strussow, on March 3rd, 1874 "...im 31. Lebensjahre nach langer Krankheit...".
E.L.
In my collection of Imperial Austrian awards, I've recently added a group of orders, decorations and papers, belonged to a former Modenese (from the Duchy of Modena, ruled by the house of Habsburg-Este) cavalry officer who, after the fall of this former Italian state, entered in the Austrian cavalry, then left for the Mexican "adventure", becoming Senior Lieutenant in the Lancers of the "Cuerpo de Voluntarios Austro-Belgas".
During his service in Emperor Maximilian's Army, he received the Knight's Cross of the Guadalupe Order (the letter, accompanying the award document, informs that the order was decerned "...por su bizarria y valoroso comportamiento en el combate de Ahuacatlan, el 17 de Julio (1865)"; more, the Bronze Medal for Military Merit (award document dated April 10th, 1865), and the French Medal for the Mexican Campaign.
After the fall of the Mexican Empire, he returned to Austria, actively serving as an Oberleutnant in the 9th Dragoon Regiment "FML Prinz zu Solms-Brannenfels", eventually dying in Strussow, on March 3rd, 1874 "...im 31. Lebensjahre nach langer Krankheit...".
E.L.
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