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William Walker

William Walker

American journalist and mercenaryWikipedia

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Nov 1, 2026

William RamseyGUEST
15:43
There was a famous one.
William RamseyGUEST
15:44
His name was William Walker, and he tried to take over parts of Mexico.
William RamseyGUEST
15:48
I know you're in Mexico.
William RamseyGUEST
15:49
So he went to La Paz and declared a new state there and then went to Nicaragua.
William RamseyGUEST
20:36
And then 16,000 people.
William RamseyGUEST
20:37
It was slated for 1961, but that plan faltered.
William RamseyGUEST
20:39
So he had two of these plans and they're based upon this William Walker who invaded Mexico in 1853 and in 1856 so and he ended up getting shot but he was kind of like William Walker was an interesting character because he had a lot of support and I think Bigley had a lot of support as well so that's kind of like my notes i mean
Hrvoje MoricHOST
21:10
just and there's you know and there's like i can't believe i'd never come across or heard of knights of the golden circle and you know as we just saw in some of your um slides there are these books so i'm gonna go uh seek out some of these books and at some point read about them i think this is important because A lot of these movements overlap and rhyme and studying, you know, the historic Illuminati, the Freemasonry, the Fabian Socialists.
John HagedornHOST
1:34
There had even been an extraordinary episode back in 1860.
John HagedornHOST
1:38
As a young reporter for the Sacramento Union, Fountain traveled to Nicaragua to cover the expedition of American adventurer William Walker.
John HagedornHOST
1:45
Fountain's reporting apparently enraged Walker.
John HagedornHOST
1:48
According to the surviving biographical record, Walker had the young newspaper man arrested and sentenced to be shot.
William RamseyGUEST
14:00
There was a famous one.
William RamseyGUEST
14:02
His name was William Walker, and he tried to take over parts of Mexico.
William RamseyGUEST
14:06
I know you're in Mexico.
William RamseyGUEST
14:07
So he went to La Paz and declared a new state there and then went to Nicaragua.
William RamseyGUEST
17:09
into into the group in 1960 so that's uh that's from a book by keen i think it is but uh yeah they had mexican expeditions the rio grande was the one i was talking about where they were leaving from brownsville to matamoros and then there was like another one there was a second planned invasion where bickley was going to um go into Guanajuato, Guanajuato and then it's and then 16,000 people.
William RamseyGUEST
17:41
It was slated for 1961, but that plan faltered.
William RamseyGUEST
17:45
So he had two of these plans and they're based upon this William Walker who invaded Mexico in 1853 and in 1856.
William RamseyGUEST
17:54
So and he ended up getting shot, but he was kind of like William Walker was an interesting character because he had a lot of support and I think Bigley had a lot of support as well.
Mark KawarGUEST
23:59
There was another gentleman named John Quitman, former governor of Mississippi, who similarly tried to organize an invasion of Cuba to add it as a slavery state to expand southern slavery.
Mark KawarGUEST
24:11
And then there was a man named William Walker, who first invaded Mexico and set up a very short-lived what he called a republic in the Baja California Peninsula and northwestern Mexico before he was driven out.
Mark KawarGUEST
24:30
But he didn't give up.
Mark KawarGUEST
24:31
He organized another expedition and went and invaded Nicaragua and got involved in the Nicaraguan Civil War and eventually became, he engineered a vote that maybe didn't meet today's strict standards of fairness, but he got himself elected president of Nicaragua and ruled that country for a short time before he was driven out.
Steven ScottHOST
45:23
no, no.
Steven ScottHOST
45:23
Because the guys, the guy, William Walker, was born in Nashville, Tennessee.
Tommy ScottHOST
45:28
Okay, my bad.
Tommy ScottHOST
45:28
And he was super
THOST
57:51
okay
KayHOST
57:52
i will have more links um in the description very interesting we should do a 201 i think i'll keep that'd be fun um amanda also says like she's doing all this and she's helping you because she doesn't want someone like william walker to ever have control of nicaragua like she doesn't want anyone to ever be in power and like i feel like Coleman, to me, wanted more than just control of Nicaragua.
KayHOST
58:15
He wanted control of basically the world.
KayHOST
58:17
But I guess he's starting here, so she sees him as...
THOST
58:20
Yeah, it's a very local threat for her.
KayHOST
58:23
So, William Walker, who sadly I've never heard of, but he, like any other American during the expansion times and during, you know, the gold rush and whatnot, just kind of like, how can I benefit from this? What can I do to make money? So, essentially, to kind of simplify his whole life, he basically ran down to Nicaragua to benefit from the trade route.
THOST
58:47
Okay.
KayHOST
58:47
There was like a...

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