Regional1838 – 1839 · 1 year

Pastry War / First French Intervention in Mexico

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Mexico · Veracruz

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

French naval intervention in Mexico over disputed claims and damages. Named for a disputed pastry shop bill; highlighted Mexican vulnerability.

Belligerents2

France
Mexico

ON THE MAPMexican Republic (1824)

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 1

Battle of San Juan de Ulua1838

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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