At the end of the Great War of 1862, in 1867, the French, Americans, British, Dutch, Californians and Colombians retired from Mexico (California kept Baja). But the fighting in Mexico was not over. There was virtually no government. Most states were managed as private feuds by their governors, and there were several nation-wide guerrilla movements, and two fractions claiming to be the official government of Mexico. One of these fractions asked support by the USA, and in 1868, the USA landed a small army in Veracruz.