-Caveat Lector-
Linda, this research is very telling, thanks. Throw in with this the interest
shown over the years by S&B boys in the Phillipines and a little Gen. Smedley
Darlington Butler and the China Trade and steamships and United Fruit and
railroads and slaves and opium and cocaine and money and control and there
starts to emerge an interesting picture. Ne pas?
Om
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In a message dated 12/24/99 8:14:15 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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>http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/5/0,5716,34875+1,00.html
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>filibustering
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>originally, in U.S. history, the attempt to take over countries at peace
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>with the United States via privately financed military expeditions, a
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>practice that reached its peak during the 1850s. In U.S. legislative usage,
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>the term refers to obstructive delaying tactics (see filibuster).
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>Spurred by land hunger and by the desire of proslavery Southerners to add
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>future slave states to the Union, filibusterers were active during the
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>decade prior to the American Civil War. Starting in 1849, Narcisco L�pez
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>three unsuccessful expeditions against Cuba. He convinced many prominent
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>Southerners that the island was ripe for revolt against Spain. In his last
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>attempt (1851), L�pez landed in Havana with a contingent of Southern
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>volunteers. The expected popular uprising against Spain failed to
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>materialize, and L�pez, along with about 50 Southerners, was executed by
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>Spanish military authorities.
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>The high point of American filibustering was reached under William Walker,
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>Californian who first tried to take Mexican Baja (Lower) California and
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>turned his attention to Nicaragua. In 1855 Walker took advantage of a civil
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>war in Nicaragua to take control of the country and set himself up as
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>dictator. In May 1856 President Franklin Pierce recognized the Walker
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>regime.
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>>>So there was a connection between this Walker, apparently, and the
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>ancestors of Barbara Pierce Bush.<<
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