d'hurbal

Updated: May 5, 2025

At that moment, to the superficial observer, and in the capital, the empire seemed an accomplished fact. The country at large, although by no means pacified, was nominally under imperial rule. Almost alone, in the south, General Porfirio Diaz held his own at Oajaca, and remained unsubdued. General Courtois d'Hurbal, who had been sent against him, had so far been unable to deal with him.

Sara Yorke Stevenson - Maximilian in Mexico : A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention 1862-1867