Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Waɗannan sojojin, waɗanda lambobin su daga baya za su kai kimanin mutane 38,000, sun kasance a ƙarƙashin jagorancin janar Charles de Lorencez, Élie Frédéric Forey da ƙarshe François Achille Bazaine. Wannan yaƙin ya kasance wurin wasu daga cikin manyan yaƙe-yaƙe a tarihin sojan Faransa, kamar yaƙin da aka yi don ƙauyen Camaron
inda, a ranar 30 ga Afrilu, 1863, legionnaires sittin da biyu suka yi ƙarfin hali na tsawon sa'o'i tara a kan 'yan Mexico fiye da dubu biyu, suna ba da damar kama garin Puebla a ranar 17 ga Mayu, 1863 don haka ya buɗe hanyar zuwa Mexico. A babban birnin, wani taron manyan mutane ya amince da Archduke Maximilian na Habsburg, ɗan'uwan Sarkin sarakuna Franz Joseph na Austria, a matsayin Sarkin Mexico.