Uroyoan walker biography of william
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On September 12, 1860, the American-born President of Nicaragua died at the hands of a firing squad.
This “gray-eyed man of destiny,” known as William Walker, had conquered the country with sixty men.
For, in the 1850s, bold military expeditions were undertaken by people without government sponsorship - expeditions, which were inherently based on conquest.
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These men-of-fortune were known as “filibusters.” The most successful, and most disastrously-fated, of these filibusters was a Tennessee native, William Walker. Of slight stature and thin-of-hair, the wildly-ambitious attorney seemed the least-likely to be a conqueror.
Yet, he was to be a conqueror not just once, but twice, and all as a private citizen.
Humble Beginnings
Born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1824, the young Walker showed intellectual promise from an early age.
At fourteen, he graduated with honors from the University of Nashville. Though he received a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania at nineteen,