William Walker, former military dictator of Nicaragua, departs from Mobile, Alabama, aboard the SS Susan, along with several soldiers of fortune, in another attempt to “Americanize” Central America.

[restored 3/4/2022]

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Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 154.

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