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    The Filibuster War or Walker affair was a military conflict between filibustering multinational troops stationed in Nicaragua and a coalition of Central...
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  • Probably the most notable example is the Filibuster War initiated by William Walker in Nicaragua in the 1850s. Filibusters are irregular soldiers who act without...
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    A filibuster is a political procedure in which one or more members of a legislative body prolong debate on proposed legislation so as to delay or entirely...
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    Pattern 1853 Enfield (category American Civil War rifles)
    conquer all of Central America. The 1853 Enfield rifle was used in the Filibuster War exclusively by the Costa Rican army, beginning with the Battle of Santa...
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    Central America's Filibuster War against William Walker and his filibuster regime in Nicaragua. (For Costa Rican historiography, the war is divided into...
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    A filibuster is a tactic used in the United States Senate to delay or block a vote on a measure by preventing debate on it from ending.: 2  The Senate's...
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    country for his actions in the 1856 Second Battle of Rivas, in the Filibuster War. He died in the battle carrying a torch he used to light the enemy stronghold...
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    enterprise was known at the time as "filibustering". After settling in California and motivated by an earlier filibustering project of Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon...
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    Mora declared war, not on Nicaragua, but on Walker and his filibusters, on the 1 March 1856. Having been talking about the filibusters for a while, Mora...
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    Knights of the Golden Circle (category American Civil War political groups)
    proposals to annex Cuba (Ostend Manifesto), parts of Central America (Filibuster War), and all of Mexico (All of Mexico Movement). In Cuba, the issue was...
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  • to Central America, where he joined the filibuster William Walker in Nicaragua, to fight in the Filibuster War, and was killed in a skirmish. In addition...
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  • This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Costa Rica.   Costa Rican military victory   Costa Rican military defeat   Indecisive or unclear outcome...
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    Continental Navy, which was established during the American Revolutionary War and was effectively disbanded as a separate entity shortly thereafter. After...
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    He was given the title "Pacificador de las Segovias" during an asymmetric war against the indigenous peoples of northern Nicaragua and signed the "Acta...
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  • provides a list of wars occurring between 1800 and 1899. Conflicts of this era include the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the American Civil War in North America...
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  • 1855, as part of the struggle to resist William Walker, an American filibuster, adventurer and mercenary who arrived in Nicaragua with a small army of...
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    (see: Lopez Expedition and Ostend Manifesto, 1852) and Nicaragua (see: Filibuster War, 1856–57), with intentions to create new slave states. Parts of Northern...
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  • This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Nicaragua....
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    2012. Walker, W (1860). The War in Nicaragua. New York: S.H. Goetzel & Company. Juda, F (1919). "California Filibusters: A History of their Expeditions...
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    took place in the small town of Masaya, northwest of William Walker’s filibuster capital, Granada. It was part of Walker’s efforts to dislodge the resurgent...
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    Rican history. The national hero Juan Santamaría, who died during the Filibuster War in 1856 to remove invaders threatening Costa Rica's sovereignty, was...
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  • This is a list of wars involving the Republic of Guatemala....
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    November 1856 was a minor naval engagement during the Filibuster War between the Nicaraguan (Filibusters) schooner Granada and the Costa Rican brig Once de...
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    The Costa Rican Civil War took place from 12 March to 24 April 1948 (44 days). The conflict began after the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica, dominated...
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    The Dominican Civil War (Spanish: Guerra Civil Dominicana), also known as the April Revolution (Spanish: Revolución de Abril), took place between April...
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    he fought during Malespín's War in the mid-1840s, the Guatemalan–Salvadoran War in the early-1850s, and the Filibuster War in the mid-1850s. As minister...
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    Dolores Estrada, fought 300 Nicaraguan filibusters of William Walker, led by Lieutenant Colonel Byron Cole. The filibusters were defeated after four hours of...
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    Walker was engaged in an unauthorized military expedition, known as the Filibuster War, in the country, ultimately to establish a slaveholding settlement there...
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  • The Nicaraguan Civil War of 1926–1927, or the Constitutionalist War, broke out after a coup d'état by Emiliano Chamorro, a member of the Conservative Party...
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  • The film is based on the life story of William Walker, the American filibuster who invaded and made himself president of Nicaragua. It was written by...
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