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   José Antonio Mexía

   He traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he encouraged filibusters from the United States to invade Mexico, recruiting Anglo settlers under the guise of brokering land for them.
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   Filibuster

   In 1946 Southern Senators blocked a vote on a bill proposed by Democrat Dennis Chavez of New Mexico (S. 101) that would have created a permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC) to prevent discrimination in the work place. ... The 1999-2002 Senate terms both had 58 filibusters.
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   Manifest Destiny

   "All Mexico" ... Brown, Charles H. Agents of Manifest Destiny: The Lives and Times of the Filibusters.
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   Filibuster (military)

   After attempting to take control of the rest of Central America and receiving no support from the U.S. government, he was defeated by the four other Central American nations he tried to invade and eventually executed by the local Honduran authorities he tried to overthrow. ... The story of the Filibusters.
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   Spanish Texas

   In 1819, James Long led an expedition to invade Texas. ... Owsley, Frank Lawrence, Jr.; Smith, Gene A. (1997), Filibusters and Expansionists: Jeffersonian Manifest Destiny, 1800–1821, Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, ISBN 0817308806
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   Manuel María de Salcedo

   At the end of November, Salcedo received a message from the viceroy of New Spain instructing him that Hidalgo and his confederates Ignacio Allende and Juan Aldama were expected to invade Texas, and that Salcedo was expected to capture them. ... To attract recruits, the filibusters offered $40 per month plus a Spanish league of land (4428 acres) to all volunteers.
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   Guaymas

   The port was attacked by the French on two occasions in the 19th century: in 1854, José María Yáñez successfully led the townsfolk in repelling a group of filibusters under Gaston Rousset Bourbon and, in 1865, a flotilla of French ships took the port and occupied it until September 1866. ... Hero Cities of Mexico
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   Narciso López

   Instead, the failure of López and other filibusters discouraged Americans, especially in the South, from adopting expansionist strategies.
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   Baltasar de Zúñiga y Guzmán, duque de Arión

   The Spanish fought off a return attack of 335 filibusters on July 16, 1717, but Andrade lost his life in the fighting. ... (Spanish) "Ciudad del Carmen, Camp.," Enciclopedia de México, v. 3. Mexico City, 1988.
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    Mercenaries in popular culture

    Many are called adventurers, filibusters, soldiers of fortune, gunslingers, gunrunners, ronin, and knights errant. ... They attempt to invade Jericho but are driven off for now.

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• José Antonio Mexía,
• Filibuster,
• Manifest Destiny,
• Filibuster (military),
• Spanish Texas,
• Manuel María de Salcedo,
• Guaymas,
• Narciso López,
• Baltasar de Zúñiga y Guzmán, duque de Arión,
• Mercenaries in popular culture