Filibuster War

Filibuster War
	; Costa Rican troops attacking William Walker at Rivas in 1856
Date	1 June 1855 – 5 May 1857; (1 year, 11 months and 4 days)
Location	Costa Rica; Nicaragua
Result	Central American alliance victory William Walker-led Filibusters are defeated; Surrender of William Walker to the U.S. Navy;
Belligerents
Filibusters Occupied Nicaragua; Nicaraguan Liberals	Allied Central American Army (Ejército Aliado Centroamericano) Nicaragua Legitimistas and Democráticos parties; ; Costa Rica; Honduras; Guatemala; El Salvador; United States (from 1857)
Commanders and leaders
William Walker ; Francisco Castellón #; Trinidad Muñoz †; Charles Henningsen; Birkett D. Fry; Collier Hornsby; Domingo de Goicouría; Byron Cole †;	Tomás Martínez; Fernando Chamorro; Máximo Jerez; Juan Rafael Mora; José Joaquín Mora; Florencio Xatruch; José Víctor Zavala; Ramón Belloso; José María Cañas; Charles H. Davis;
Strength
5,213 mercenaries (1855–1857)	2,500 men (Costa Rica); 4,000 men (Ejército Aliado Centroamericano)
Casualties and losses
1,000 killed	1,202 killed 9,615 soldiers and civilians dead by cholera outbreak

The Filibuster War or Walker affair 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.

^ "La Guerra Nacional" [National War] (in Spanish). Nicaragua Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 24 July 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
^ 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.

[1] "La Guerra Nacional" [National War] (in Spanish). Nicaragua Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 24 July 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2016.

[calnative-2] Don Fuchik (2007). "The Saga of William Walker". calnative.com. Archived from the original on 23 April 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2015.

[3] "Statistics of Wars, Oppressions and Atrocities of the Nineteenth Century" Archived 2015-04-30 at archive.today (collection of many sources)

[4] 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.

[5] 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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