The War in Nicaragua
General William Walker’s WAR IN NICARAGUA—written at the close of a long civil war in Nicaragua and on the eve of the bloody American Civil War—is an autobiographical testament by one of the most infamous mercenaries/conquistadors in Latin America history, and one of the most elusive and fascinating figures in the history of North America. As with Julius Caesar’s DE BELLO GALLICO (which the author as a boy read and reread in Latin), Walker wrote this account in third person—with himself and his endeavors at dead center, and like Caesar, Walker is dispassionate and articulate, thorough and insightful. This momentous narrative, in a definitive, all-new illustrated edition—with corrected text, voluminous notes and annotations, maps, chronology, an extensive glossary, and with General Walker’s own registry of his Army—makes this Fonthill Classic Edition, quite literally, the most useful and engaging version of this important literary and military classic ever published.
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The War in Nicaragua
General William Walker’s WAR IN NICARAGUA—written at the close of a long civil war in Nicaragua and on the eve of the bloody American Civil War—is an autobiographical testament by one of the most infamous mercenaries/conquistadors in Latin America history, and one of the most elusive and fascinating figures in the history of North America. As with Julius Caesar’s DE BELLO GALLICO (which the author as a boy read and reread in Latin), Walker wrote this account in third person—with himself and his endeavors at dead center, and like Caesar, Walker is dispassionate and articulate, thorough and insightful. This momentous narrative, in a definitive, all-new illustrated edition—with corrected text, voluminous notes and annotations, maps, chronology, an extensive glossary, and with General Walker’s own registry of his Army—makes this Fonthill Classic Edition, quite literally, the most useful and engaging version of this important literary and military classic ever published.
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The War in Nicaragua

The War in Nicaragua

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General William Walker’s WAR IN NICARAGUA—written at the close of a long civil war in Nicaragua and on the eve of the bloody American Civil War—is an autobiographical testament by one of the most infamous mercenaries/conquistadors in Latin America history, and one of the most elusive and fascinating figures in the history of North America. As with Julius Caesar’s DE BELLO GALLICO (which the author as a boy read and reread in Latin), Walker wrote this account in third person—with himself and his endeavors at dead center, and like Caesar, Walker is dispassionate and articulate, thorough and insightful. This momentous narrative, in a definitive, all-new illustrated edition—with corrected text, voluminous notes and annotations, maps, chronology, an extensive glossary, and with General Walker’s own registry of his Army—makes this Fonthill Classic Edition, quite literally, the most useful and engaging version of this important literary and military classic ever published.

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BN ID: 2940148288886
Publisher: Fonthill Press LLC
Publication date: 02/19/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 21 MB
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About the Author

William Walker (1824-1860) Physician, lawyer, editor, publisher, author, polyglot, magistrate, mercenary, gringo conquistador and soldier of fortune, self-proclaimed President of the Republics of Lower California and Sonora (Mexico), General of the Armies of Nicaragua, would-be emperor of Central America and, to date, the only Nashville-born President of the Republic of Nicaragua. Of all these professions (or near professions), the talented General William Walker arguably excelled the most as a writer. In THE WAR IN NICARAGUA he penned a military classic. Indeed, the book stands as the illustrious climax of his tumultuous life, for in 1860—the same year he wrote and published his classic—he was captured by the British Royal Navy and executed by a Honduran firing squad.

Today all but forgotten in the United States, William Walker is still deeply remembered across all of Latin America—where he is regarded as a monstrous anomaly, a curious blight upon the pages of history. Indeed, a century and a half after his death, in the aftermath of the Iran Contra scandal, Oliver North, the Sandinistas et cetera, William Walker’s long shadow yet haunts and darkens U.S. relations with its neighbors all across Latin America and the Caribbean.
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