William Seward: After shooting stopped in 1865, Secratary of States Seward, speaking with authority of nearly a million war-tempered bayonets, prepared to march South. This resulted in Napolen realizing that his gamble was doomed. Emperor Napolean III of France sent a French army to occupy Mexico City in 1863 and the following year he enthroned his puppet Austrian archdue Maximilian as emperor of Mexico--both were a violation of the Monroe Doctrine. WIth this, he hoped the Union would collapse and America would be too weak to enforce their "hands-off" policy. But when Seward prepared to march south, Napoleon's hopes failed and was forced to leave with Maximilian in 1867.
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