Flavel Belcher letters, 1851-1857.

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Flavel Belcher letters, 1851-1857.

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Letters relate to Belcher's experiences as a miner and trader in California and as a member of Walker's filibustering expedition in Nicaragua.

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Walker, William, 1824-1860

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William Walker (May 8, 1824 – September 12, 1860) was an American physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary who organized several private military expeditions into Latin America, with the intention of establishing English-speaking colonies under his personal control, an enterprise then known as "filibustering". Walker usurped the presidency of the Republic of Nicaragua in 1856 and ruled until 1857,[1] when he was defeated by a coalition of Central American armies. He returned in an attempt to ...

Belcher, Flavel.

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