Trujillo, Honduras
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Trujillo is a city, with a population of 22,750, and a municipality on the northern Caribbean coast of the Honduran department of Colón, of which the city is the capital.
Trujillo Cathedral
Trujillo, the cathedral, 2006 panoramio
Santa Barbara fortress, built during the 16th century
Seaside of the Town in 1951
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
Trujillo, Honduras
…permanently first to Comayagua, which lost it to Tegucigalpa in 1880. From this same period onwards Trujillo began to prosper again. In 1860, the mercenary William Walker, who was expelled in from Nicaragua in 1857, led an expedition intended to regain control of that country. He captured Trujillo with the intention to…
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.