William Walker the American filibuster who wanted to be the Nicaragua owner

In 1856, a man born in Tennessee, weighing barely 50 pounds and measuring less than sixty feet, sat in the presidential chair of a country that was not his own.It did not arrive with an army of one nation. He arrived with a handful of mercenaries, a gun and an obsession: to build a slave empire in the heart of Central America.It's called William Walker. They called him "the filibuster king." Doctor, lawyer, journalist… and the man who, for a brief and bloody chapter in history, ruled Nicaragua as if it were his own.His story has it all: a Nicaraguan civil war he knew how to exploit, the silent backing of tycoons like Cornelius Vanderbilt—until he ceased to be—an army of "filibusters" recruited in San Francisco and New Orleans bars, and a Confederate dream of reintroducing slavery where it had already been abolished.Five Central American countries, normally at odds with each other, did something almost unprecedented: they joined together to expel him. And his ending… was not in Nicaragua, but in front of a firing squad in Honduras.Today we’re going to tell how one man was on the verge of changing the political map of Central America — and why his shadow is still being debated among those who call him an adventurer, an invader, or something worse.