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See also:- WALKER, FRANCIS AMASA (1840-1897)
- WALKER, FREDERICK (184o--1875)
- WALKER, GEORGE (c. 1618-169o)
- WALKER, HENRY OLIVER (1843— )
- WALKER, HORATIO (1858– )
- WALKER, JOHN (1732—1807)
- WALKER, OBADIAH (1616-1699)
- WALKER, ROBERT (d. c. 1658)
- WALKER, ROBERT JAMES (1801-1869)
- WALKER, SEARS COOK (1805—1853)
- WALKER, THOMAS (1784—1836)
- WALKER, WILLIAM (1824-1860)
WALKER, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1824-1860) , Amencan adventurer, was See also:born in See also:Nashville, See also:Tennessee, on the 8th of May 1824. After graduating from the university of Nashville in 1838, he studied See also:law, was admitted to the See also:bar, and subsequently spent a See also:year in the study of See also:medicine at See also:Edinburgh and See also:Heidelberg. He practised medicine for a few months in See also:Philadelphia and then removed to New See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans, where he engaged in journalism. In 185o he migrated to See also:California and engaged in newspaper See also:work at See also:San Francisco and later at Marysville, where he also practised law. On the 15th of See also:October 1853 he sailed from San Francisco with a filibustering force for the See also:conquest of Mexican territory. He landed in See also:Lower California, and on the 18th of See also:January 1854 he proclaimed
this and the neighbouring See also:State of Sonora an See also:independent See also:republic. See also:Starvation and Mexican attacks led to the See also:- ABANDONMENT (Fr. abandonnement, from abandonner, to abandon, relinquish; abandonner was originally equivalent to mettred banddn, to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another, bandon being from Low Latin bandum, bannum, order, decree, " ban ")
abandonment of this enterprise, and Walker resumed his journalistic work in California. On the 4th of May 1855, with fifty-six followers, Walker again sailed from San Francisco, this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time for See also:Nicaragua, where he had been invited by one of the belligerent factions to come to its aid. In October Walker seized a steamer on See also:Lake Nicaragua belonging to the See also:Accessory Transit See also:Company, a See also:corporation of Americans engaged in transporting See also:freight and passengers across the See also:isthmus, and was thus enabled to surprise and See also:capture See also:Granada, the See also:capital and the stronghold of his opponents, and to make himself See also:master of Nicaragua. See also:Peace was then made; Patricio Rivas, who had been neutral, was made provisional See also:president, and Walker secured the real See also:power as See also:commander of the troops. At this time two officials of the Transit Company determined to use Walker as their See also:tool to get See also:control of that corporation, then dominated by See also:Cornelius See also:Vanderbilt, and they advanced him funds and transported his recruits from the See also:United States See also:free of See also:charge. In return for these favours, Walker seized the See also:property of the company, on the pretext of a violation of its See also:charter, and turned over its equipment to the men who had befriended him. On the 2oth of May 1856 the new See also:government was formally recognized at See also:Washington by President See also:Pierce, and on the 3rd of See also:June the Democratic See also:national See also:convention expressed its sympathy with the efforts being made to " re-generate " Nicaragua. In June Walker was chosen president of Nicaragua, and on the 22nd of See also:September, from alleged economic See also:necessity, and also to gain the sympathy and support of the slave states in See also:America, he repealed the See also:laws prohibiting See also:slavery.
Walker managed to maintain himself against a See also:coalition of Central See also:American states, led by See also:Costa Rica, which was aided and abetted by agents of Cornelius Vanderbilt, until the 1st of May 1857, when, to avoid capture by the natives, he surrendered to Commander See also:Charles See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Davis, of the United States See also:navy, and returned to the United States. In See also:November 1857 he sailed from See also:Mobile with another expedition, but soon after landing at Punta Arenas he was arrested by See also:Commodore Hiram See also:Paulding of the American navy, and was compelled to return to the United States as a paroled prisoner. On his arrival he was released by See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of President See also:Buchanan. After several unsuccessful attempts to return to Central America, Walker finally sailed from Mobile in See also:August 186o and landed in See also:Honduras. Here he was taken prisoner by See also:Captain See also:Salmon, of the See also:British navy, and was surrendered to the Honduran authorities, by whom he was tried and condemned to be shot. He was executed on the 12th of September 186o.
See Walker's own narrative, accurate as to details, The See also:War in Nicaragua (Mobile, 186o) ; William V. See also:Wells, Walker's Expedition to Nicaragua (New See also:York, 1856) ; Charles William See also:Doubleday, Reminiscences of the” See also:Filibuster " War in Nicaragua (New York, 1886), and See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Jeffrey See also:Roche, The See also:Story of the Filibusters (See also:London,1891), revised and reprinted as Byways of War (See also:Boston, 1901). (W. O.
End of Article: WALKER, WILLIAM (1824-1860)
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