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Births Deaths Walker was made commander-in-chief of an army.html">army of
man named Rivas was appointed temporary president.
To Walker this pause in the fight was most welcome. It gave him
better accomplishment of what was the real object of his going to
most effective known to military history. For although six months
unlike the Phalanx of the fifty-eight adventurers who were driven
picked men commanded by Colonel Roosevelt. Instead of the
were filled with the pick of the California mining camps, with
spirit, and with soldiers of fortune from all of the great armies of
of the Khedive of Egypt, were several of Walker's officers, and for
trained by him in the jungles of Nicaragua did not distinguish
Henningsen, writes that though he had taken part in some of the
Walker's command against any five thousand Confederate or
authority. Before he joined Walker he had served in Spain under
"I often have seen them march with a broken or compound
revolver. Those with a fractured thigh or wounds which rendered
up in the average of everyday life, nor do I ever expect to see their
before such assailants, who came at a run to close with their
hand."
Another graduate of Walker's army was Captain Fred. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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