Florencio Xatruch
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Florencio Xatruch was a general who led the Honduran expeditionary force against William Walker in Nicaragua in 1856.
Florencio Xatruch
General Florencio Xatruch
William Walker (filibuster)
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William Walker was an American journalist and mercenary. In the era of the expansion of the United States, driven by the doctrine of manifest destiny, Walker organized unauthorized military expedition
Walker in c. 1855–1860
President Walker's house in Granada, Nicaragua. On October 12, 1856, during the siege of Granada, Guatemalan officer José Víctor Zavala ran under heavy fire to capture Walker's flag and bring it back to the Central American coalition army trenches shouting "Filibuster bullets don't kill!". Zavala survived this adventure unscathed.
William Walker's grave in the Old Trujillo Cemetery, Trujillo, Honduras
The Costa Rica National Monument represents the five united Central American nations carrying weapons and William Walker fleeing.