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William Walker
Sign in to saveAmerican filibuster, physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary (1824-1860)
Person · Open Library
- Died
- 1726
- Works
- 132
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1910-05-28
- Active to
- 1975-03-16
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,309
- Total plays
- 6,200
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using
<b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 75,991x
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 62,994x
- Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 44,845x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,574x
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,950x
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Patricio Rivas
- Succeeded by
- Máximo Jerez and Tomás Martínez
- Born
- May 8, 1824 ( 1824-05-08 ) , Nashville, Tennessee , U.S.
- Died
- September 12, 1860 (1860-09-12) (aged 36), Trujillo , Colón, Honduras
- Cause of death
- Execution by firing squad
- Resting place
- Old Trujillo Cemetery, Trujillo, Colón, Honduras
- Party
- Democratic (Nicaragua)
- Alma mater
- University of Nashville University of Edinburgh University of Pennsylvania Heidelberg University
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Encyclopedic overview
William Walker (May 8, 1824 – September 12, 1860) 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 expeditions into Mexico and Central America with the intention of establishing colonies. Such an enterprise was known at the time as "filibustering".
After settling in California, motivated by an earlier filibustering project of Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon, Walker attempted in 1853–54 to take Baja California and Sonora. He declared those territories to be an independent Republic of Sonora, but he was soon driven back to California by the Mexican forces. Walker then went to Nicaragua in 1855 as leader of a mercenary army employed by the Nicaraguan Democratic Party in its civil war against the Legitimists. He took control of the Nicaraguan government and in July 1856 set himself up as the country's president.
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