Claim: Mexico's War of the Reform lasted three years.
Evidence: The Pastry War , the Franco-Mexican War , a civil war , two empires and a domestic dictatorship occurred through the 19th century.
The War of the Reform -LRB- Guerra de Reforma -RRB- in Mexico , during the Second Federal Republic of Mexico , was the three-year civil war -LRB- 1857 - 1860 -RRB- between liberals who had taken power in 1855 under the Plan of Ayutla , and conservatives resisting the legitimacy of the government and its radical restructuring of Mexican laws , known as La Reforma.