Part One: The Dumbest Colonizer in History

<p>Robert is joined by Miles Gray to discuss William Walker, the American who tried to conquer Central America.</p><p><strong>FOOTNOTES:</strong></p><ol> <li><a href="https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/mercenary-hero-william-walker">Mercenary Hero William Walker</a></li> <li> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Filibusters-Financiers-William-Walker-Associates/dp/111259373X">Filibusters and Financiers: The Story of William Walker and His Associates [1916]</a> </li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/William-Walkers-Wars-American-Nicaragua-ebook/dp/B079MHFYR6">William Walker's Wars: How One Man's Private American Army Tried to Conquer Mexico, Nicaragua, and Honduras</a></li> <li><a href="https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1573&amp;context=ethj">The Texas Press William Walker in Nicaragua </a></li> <li><a href="https://thepenngazette.com/william-walkers-dark-destiny/">William Walker’s Dark Destiny</a></li> <li><a href="http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/FieldCourses00/PapersCostaRicaArticles/CostaRicain1856.Defeating.html">Costa Rica in 1856: Defeating William Walker While Creating a National Identity.</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Agents-Empire-Corsairs-Sixteenth-Century-Mediterranean/dp/1531876218">Agents of Empire</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/filibusters/walker-media.pdf">The Grey Eyed Man of Destiny</a></li> </ol><p> </p> Learn more about your ad-choices at <a href="https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com">https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com</a><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>