
William Walker
American journalist and mercenaryWikipedia
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Search complete. 13 mentions across 6 episodes found for "William Walker".
Nov 1, 2026
Knights of the Golden Circle on the Geopolitics & Empire Podcast with Hrvoje Moric and WR.
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15:43William RamseyGUEST
There was a famous one.
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15:44William RamseyGUEST
His name was William Walker, and he tried to take over parts of Mexico.
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15:48William RamseyGUEST
I know you're in Mexico.
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15:49William RamseyGUEST
So he went to La Paz and declared a new state there and then went to Nicaragua.
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20:36William RamseyGUEST
And then 16,000 people.
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20:37William RamseyGUEST
It was slated for 1961, but that plan faltered.
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20:39William RamseyGUEST
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
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21:10Hrvoje MoricHOST
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.
VANISHED AT WHITE SANDS from FORGOTTEN TALES OF THE OLD WEST
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1:34John HagedornHOST
There had even been an extraordinary episode back in 1860.
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1:38John HagedornHOST
As a young reporter for the Sacramento Union, Fountain traveled to Nicaragua to cover the expedition of American adventurer William Walker.
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1:45John HagedornHOST
Fountain's reporting apparently enraged Walker.
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1:48John HagedornHOST
According to the surviving biographical record, Walker had the young newspaper man arrested and sentenced to be shot.
William Ramsey: 1850s Secret Society ‘Knights of the Golden Circle’ as Proto-Technate?
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14:00William RamseyGUEST
There was a famous one.
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14:02William RamseyGUEST
His name was William Walker, and he tried to take over parts of Mexico.
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14:06William RamseyGUEST
I know you're in Mexico.
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14:07William RamseyGUEST
So he went to La Paz and declared a new state there and then went to Nicaragua.
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17:09William RamseyGUEST
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.
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17:41William RamseyGUEST
It was slated for 1961, but that plan faltered.
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17:45William RamseyGUEST
So he had two of these plans and they're based upon this William Walker who invaded Mexico in 1853 and in 1856.
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17:54William RamseyGUEST
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.
America's Failed Annexations with Mark Kawar
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23:59Mark KawarGUEST
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.
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24:11Mark KawarGUEST
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.
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24:30Mark KawarGUEST
But he didn't give up.
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24:31Mark KawarGUEST
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.
Watchmen (2009): Episode 1
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45:23Steven ScottHOST
no, no.
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45:23Steven ScottHOST
Because the guys, the guy, William Walker, was born in Nashville, Tennessee.
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45:28Tommy ScottHOST
Okay, my bad.
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45:28Tommy ScottHOST
And he was super
101: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (2010) - Part 7
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57:51THOST
okay
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57:52KayHOST
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.
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58:15KayHOST
He wanted control of basically the world.
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58:17KayHOST
But I guess he's starting here, so she sees him as...
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58:20THOST
Yeah, it's a very local threat for her.
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58:23KayHOST
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.
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58:47THOST
Okay.
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58:47KayHOST
There was like a...