Pastry War

Pastry War
Épisode de l'expédition du Mexique en 1838, Horace Vernet
Date 27 November 1838 – 9 March 1839 (3 months, 1 week and 3 days) Location Veracruz, Mexico Result French victory
Belligerents
France	Mexican Republic
Commanders and leaders
Charles Baudin	Santa Anna
Strength
3,000	3,229 1 fort
Casualties and losses
121 killed and wounded	224 killed and wounded 1 fort captured

The Pastry War (Spanish: Guerra de los pasteles; French: Guerre des Pâtisseries), also known as the first French intervention in Mexico or the first Franco-Mexican war (1838–1839), began in November 1838 with the naval blockade of some Mexican ports and the capture of the fortress of San Juan de Ulúa in the port of Veracruz by French forces sent by King Louis Philippe I. It ended in March 1839 with a British-brokered peace. The intervention followed many claims by French nationals of losses due to unrest in Mexico. This would be the first of two French invasions of Mexico; a second, larger intervention would take place in the 1860s.^[1]