Back Campaña Nacional de 1856-1857 Spanish Campagne nationale du Costa Rica French Campanha Nacional de 1856–1857 Portuguese Флибустьерская война Russian
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| Filibuster War | |||||||
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 Costa Rican troops attacking William Walker at Rivas in 1856 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Nicaraguan Liberals |
Allied Central American Army (Ejército Aliado Centroamericano)
 United States (from 1857)[1] | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 5,213 mercenaries (1855–1857) |
2,500 men (Costa Rica) 4,000 men (Ejército Aliado Centroamericano) | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 1,000 killed[3] |
1,202 killed[4] 9,615 soldiers and civilians dead by cholera outbreak[5] | ||||||
The Filibuster War, otherwise referred to as the Walker affair, or The National Campaign of 1856 and 1857[a] in Costa Rica,[7][8] was a military conflict between filibustering multinational troops stationed in Nicaragua and a coalition of Central American armies. An American mercenary, William Walker, and his small private army were invited to Nicaragua in 1855. He seized control of the country by 1856, but was ousted the following year.
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- ^ Don Fuchik (2007). "The Saga of William Walker". calnative.com. Archived from the original on 23 April 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
- ^ "Statistics of Wars, Oppressions and Atrocities of the Nineteenth Century" Archived 2015-04-30 at archive.today (collection of many sources)
- ^ Arias, Raúl Francisco (2001). Los soldados de la Campaña Nacional (1856-1857). San José: Editorial de la Universidad Estatal a Distancia. p. 398. ISBN 978-9968-315-46-3.
- ^ Vargas Araya, Armando (2007). El lado oculto del presidente Mora: resonancias de la Guerra Patria contra el filibusterismo de Estados Unidos (1850-1860) (1st ed.). San José, Costa Rica: Editorial de la Universidad Estatal a Distancia. p. 432. ISBN 978-9968-521-96-3.
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- ^ "Las batallas de la Campaña Nacional 1856-1857". ccecr.org. Cooperación Española Cultura / San Jose. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
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