About this section :
This section brings together research works devoted to the study, analysis, and dissemination of the facts, contexts, protagonists, and memories related to Camerone, as well as its historical legacy. Its purpose is to offer a rigorous reference space, open to documents, testimonies, archives, comparative studies, and reflections that make it possible to better understand the military, human, political, and symbolic dimensions of this episode. Through this research, CAMERONE A.C. seeks to contribute to the preservation of historical memory and to the strengthening of dialogue between France, Mexico, and all those interested in the truth of the facts, as well as in their transmission to future generations.
Hector STROBEL
Historian, PhD in History from El Colegio de México, and postdoctoral researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas of UNAM. His work focuses primarily on the history of the Liberal Reform and the French Intervention in Mexico (1854-1867), with particular attention to the organization of armies, popular mobilization, recruitment, Republican resistance, as well as the political and social dynamics of the conflict.
He is the author of research studies and reference works on this period, including El ejército liberal en la Reforma. Guardia nacional, fuerzas militares y movilización popular, 1854-1861 and Resistir es vencer. Historia militar de la intervención francesa, 1862-1867, works that have helped to renew the historiographical understanding of one of the decisive episodes of nineteenth-century Mexico. His approach combines archival rigor, critical reading of sources, and a broad vision of the military, political, and territorial processes that shaped the defense of the Republic.
His career has been recognized with various academic awards and distinctions, including the award for best research project from the International Commission of Military History 2021, the Gastón García Cantú Prize 2021 from the INEHRM / Secretaría de Cultura, as well as other mentions and recognitions in the field of military history and Mexican historiography.
Within CAMERONE A.C., Héctor Strobel del Moral brings a specialized and solidly documented perspective on the French Intervention and its historical context, contributing to a serious analysis of the facts, their protagonists, and their legacy in the shared memory between Mexico and France.
Bibliography:
Hector Strobel (2024), The Liberal Army during the Reform. National Guard, Military Forces, and Popular Mobilization, 1854-1861, Fondo de Cultura Económica/El Colegio de México, Mexico City.
_________ (2024), To Resist Is to Triumph. Military History of the French Intervention, 1862-1867, Grano de Sal/BUAP, Mexico City.
_________ (2020), Xalapa during the French Intervention and the Second Empire, 1861-1867, H. Ayuntamiento de Xalapa, Xalapa (2nd ed., 2023).
