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Is it possible for the French to using their objective of preventing the massacre of Maronite Christians being slaughtered by the Druze as a pretext to conquer and annex Mount Lebanon during the 1860 massacre? The Maronites have had a strong pro-French way about them since the Crusades and I'd figure that they would have little to no issue with French rule.