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Like Russia, Austria-Hungary was looking to expand its horizons at this time. In collaboration with the French, the Austrian Archduke Maximilian and his wife Carlotta became the rulers of Mexico toward the end of the Civil War, but the Mexicans defeated them and formed a republic a few years after the Civil War ended.

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