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  2. Filibuster War - Wikipedia

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    The Filibuster War, otherwise referred to as the Walker affair, or The National Campaign of 1856 and 1857 [a] in Costa Rica, [7] [8] was a military conflict between filibustering multinational troops stationed in Nicaragua and a coalition of Central American armies.

  3. William Walker (filibuster) - Wikipedia

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    The Costa Rica National Monument represents the five united Central American nations carrying weapons and William Walker fleeing. Before the end of the American Civil War , Walker's memory enjoyed great popularity in the southern and western United States, where he was known as "General Walker" [ 51 ] and as the "gray-eyed man of destiny". [ 8 ]

  4. Action of 23 November 1856 - Wikipedia

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    The filibusters captured the schooner Granada––formerly the San José––from the Costa Ricans at San Juan del Sur in the summer of 1856, and converted the ship for war. The Costa Rican brig Once de Abril was named in honor of their victory over the filibusters at the Second Battle of Rivas, sevens months earlier. [2]

  5. Battle of Santa Rosa - Wikipedia

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    When the filibusters of the Nicaraguan movement realised what was happening in Costa Rica, they organised a battalion numbering about 70 men, two out of its four companies consisted entirely of Frenchmen the other two companies consisted entirely of Germans, under the leadership of Colonel Schlessinger, which entered Costa Rica through the road ...

  6. Followers and supporters of William Walker's filibustering in ...

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    A military coalition led by Costa Rica defeated Walker and forced him to resign the presidency of Nicaragua on May 1, 1857. [ 3 ] Walker then tried to re-launch his filibustering project and in 1860 he published a book, The War in Nicaragua , which cast his efforts to conquer Central America as tied to the geographical expansion of slavery.

  7. Juan Santamaría - Wikipedia

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    A depiction of the Second Battle of Rivas under the statue of Santamaría in Alajuela. The war began when William Walker, a United States filibuster, or person engaged in unauthorized warfare against a foreign country, overthrew the government of Nicaragua in 1856 and attempted to conquer the other nations in Central America, including Costa Rica, in order to form a private slaveholding empire.

  8. Costa Rica charges former president Solis with corruption

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    SAN JOSE (Reuters) -Costa Rica said on Thursday it has charged former President Luis Guillermo Solis with corruption, accusing him of involvement in a 2017 improper transfer of government funds to ...

  9. List of wars involving Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    League War (1835) San José: Alajuela Cartago Heredia: San Jose's victory: Invasion of Guanacaste (1836) Costa Rica. Nicaragua Costa Ricans exiled. Victory: Filibuster War (1855–1857) Costa Rica Nicaragua Kingdom of Mosquitia Guatemala Honduras El Salvador United States: Filibusters: Victory. William Walker's army is defeated and he is ...