Voyages Extraordinaires
The story was first published in July 1851 under the title "The First Ships of the Mexican Navy" ("L'Amérique du Sud. Etudes historiques. Les Premiers Navires de la Marine Mexicaine") in "Musée des familles" with three illustrations by Eugène Forest and Alexandre de Bar. The renamed and revised version, with six illustrations by Jules Férat, was published in 1876 together with the novel "Michel Strogoff" as a part of the "Voyages Extraordinaires" series. The first English translation by W. H. G. Kingston was published in 1876.