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Walker, William

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
1824–60, American filibuster in Nicaragua, b. Nashville, Tenn. Walker, a qualified doctor, a lawyer, and a journalist by the time he was 24, sought a more adventurous career. After a short stay in San Francisco, his filibustering expeditions began with an invasion of Lower California (1853–54) intended to wrest the region together with Sonora from Mexico. The invasion failed miserably. He was tried for violating neutrality laws but was acquitted by a sympathetic jury. In June, 1855, Walker set out on another filibustering expedition, this time to Nicaragua, at the invitation of one of the country's revolutionary factions. His capture of Granada brought an end to the fighting, and, after obtaining recognition (May, 1856) from the United States for the new government, Walker declared himself president of Nicaragua in July, 1856. An alliance of hostile Central American states and the enmity of his former friend Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose Accessory Transit Company controlled Walker's…
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From The Great American History Fact-Finder
Adventurer and filibusterer. Walker led a number of filibustering expeditions into Latin America. In 1853 he led a band of colonists in an attempt to seize Baja California, declaring himself president. Arrested for violating neutrality laws, he was acquitted. In 1855 Walker led a successful…
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Full text Article Walker, William (1824–1860)

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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born May 8, 1824, Nashville, Tenn., U.S.—died Sept. 12, 1860, Trujillo, Hond.) U.S. military adventurer. He moved to California (1850), where his interest in colonizing Baja California developed into a filibustering (insurrection) scheme. He landed at La Paz (1853) and proclaimed Lower California…
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Full text Article Walker, William

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
1824–60, American filibuster in Nicaragua, b. Nashville, Tenn. Walker, a qualified doctor, a lawyer, and a journalist by the time he was 24, sought a more adventurous career. After a short stay in San Francisco, his filibustering expeditions began with an invasion of Lower California (1853–54) …
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From Latin American History and Culture: Encyclopedia of Early Modern Latin America (1820s to 1900)
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, William Walker was...
(b. 1824–d. 1860) U.S. filibusterer and president of Nicaragua The son of a successful Nashville, Tennessee, businessman, Walker earned a medical degree, practiced law, and dabbled in journalism before going to California, where he became entwined with others who wanted to incorpo... …
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From The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History
(1824–1860), filibuster. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, William Walker was the most successful of the antebellum “filibusters,” adventurers with private armies who invaded friendly foreign countries. Filibustering was illegal according to both the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8) and the…
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From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
1824-60 US buccaneer and adventurer Born in Nashville, Tennessee, he studied medicine, which he practised in the USA, at Edinburgh in Scotland and Heidelberg, Germany, as well as law and journalism. In 1853 he landed with a force in the Mexican state of Lower California, and the following year…
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From Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
Seaport, ✽ of Colón dept., Honduras, 58 mi. (93 km.) NE of Tegucigalpa; pop. (2001e) 9300; founded c. 1525. American filibuster William Walker killed nearby 1860. Coastal city, NW Peru, 9 mi. (14 km.) from its port and ab. 315 mi. (505 km.) NW of Lima; pop. (1993c) 509,312; ships sugar; produces…
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The term National War in Central America refers to the combined military efforts of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador to defeat the forces of Tennessee-born U.S. filibuster William Walker in 1856–57. The Walker episode represented the pinnacle of 19th-century U.S. …
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