Platón Sánchez

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Rafael Platón Sánchez Meraz (15 October 1831 – 30 November 1867) was an artillery officer in the Mexican Army in the mid-19th century. During the French intervention of 1861–1867, he fought in the Battle of Puebla (1862) and the Siege of Querétaro (1867), and he presided over the court-martial that sentenced Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico to death, along with his generals Tomás Mejía and Miguel Miramón, in June 1867.

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