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He moved to Tuolumne County, California, in the early 1850s, where he studied law and began his practice. In the mid-1850s, he joined William Walker's filibustering expeditions in Mexico and Nicaragua but later opposed Walker's pro-slavery policies. He returned from Nicaragua to the U.S. only after Walker was executed in Honduras. [4 ...
Máximo Jerez Tellería (8 June 1818 in León, Nicaragua – 12 August 1881 in Washington, D.C., USA) was a 19th-century Nicaraguan politician, lawyer and military leader. He is considered to be one of the greatest Liberal political thinkers in Nicaraguan history. He was a leader of the movement towards Central American unity. [1] [2]
The Treaty of Managua, also known as the Zeledon-Wyke treaty, was an 1860 agreement between the United Kingdom and Nicaragua, in which Britain recognised Nicaraguan sovereignty over the Kingdom of Mosquitia, but reserved, on the basis of historical rights, a self-governing enclave known of the Mosquito Reservation for the people, citing earlier treaty arrangements and historical circumstances.
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Henry Theodore Titus (February 13, 1823 – August 7, 1881) was a pioneer, soldier of fortune, and the founder of Titusville, Florida. His military adventurism included expeditions to Cuba and Nicaragua, fighting on the side of pro-slavery forces in the Kansas Territory, and blockade running during the Civil War. Never commissioned, Titus ...
This is a list of sovereign states in the 1880s, giving an overview of states around the world during the period between 1 January 1880 and 31 December 1889.It contains entries, arranged alphabetically, with information on the status and recognition of their sovereignty.