Author: Merritt Parmelee AllenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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William Walker, Filibuster
Author: Merritt Parmelee AllenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Filibuster
Author: Laurence GreenePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
The Filibuster
Author: Laurence GreenePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Freebooters Must Die!
Author: Frederic Rosengarten (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
In 1855 an American named William Walker invaded Nicaragua with 58 reckless soldiers of fortune. Within a year he took over the government and had himself "declared" president of Nicaragua. Planning to create a vast slave empire in Central America with himself as dictator, Walker challenged the power of Great Britain, the wealth of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the prestige of the president of the United States. He terrorized the five small Central American republics, as he ruthlessly plunged them into a ghastly bloodbath. Walker rose to the height of fame in the years just prior to the Civil War, his name was on every tongue. Frenzied admirers in New Orleans carried him triumphantly on their shoulders as a conquering hero. But he also inspired the fear, hatred, and vengeance of many who opposed him, and at the age of 36 he was executed by a firing squad of barefoot soldiers in Honduras in September 1860.
Filibusters and Financiers
Author: William Oscar ScroggsPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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William Walker, Filibuster. [With a Portrait.].
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Author: Merritt Parmelee ALLENPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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Filibusters and Financiers
Author: William Oscar ScroggsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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William Walker's Wars
Author: Scott MartellePublisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613737327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot—and illegal—forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over. These efforts became known as filibustering, and their goal was to seize territory to create new independent fiefdoms, which would ultimately be annexed by the still-growing United States. Most failed miserably. William Walker was the outlier. Short, slender, and soft-spoken with no military background—he trained as a doctor before becoming a lawyer and then a newspaper editor—Walker was an unlikely leader of rough-hewn men and adventurers. But in 1856 he managed to install himself as president of Nicaragua. Neighboring governments saw Walker as a risk to the region and worked together to drive him out—efforts aided, incongruously, by the United States' original tycoon, Cornelius Vanderbilt. William Walker's Wars is a story of greedy dreams and ambitions, the fate of nations and personal fortunes, and the dark side of Manifest Destiny, for among Walker's many goals was to build his own empire based on slavery. This little-remembered story from US history is a cautionary tale for all who dream of empire.
William Walker, Filibuster
Author: Merritt Parmelee 1892-1954 AllenPublisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781013874550
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
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Manifest Destiny's Underworld
Author: Robert E. MayPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America's notorious "filibusters--the freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed invasions of nations with whom the United States was formally at peace. Offering the first full-scale analysis of the filibustering movement, Robert May relates the often-tragic stories of illegal expeditions into Cuba, Mexico, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and other Latin American countries and details surprising numbers of aborted plots, as well. May investigates why thousands of men joined filibustering expeditions, how they were financed, and why the U.S. government had little success in curtailing them. Surveying antebellum popular media, he shows how the filibustering phenomenon infiltrated the American psyche in newspapers, theater, music, advertising, and literature. Condemned abroad as pirates, frequently in language strikingly similar to modern American denunciations of foreign terrorists, the filibusters were often celebrated at home as heroes who epitomized the spirit of Manifest Destiny. May concludes by exploring the national consequences of filibustering, arguing that the practice inflicted lasting damage on U.S. relations with foreign countries and contributed to the North-South division over slavery that culminated in the Civil War.