Talk:Battle of Santa Rosa

Walker
Walker was hardly a saint, but as written, this article is overly harsh in my opinion and assigns him all the blame. Caerwine 00:16, 1 November 2005 (UTC)


 * There is no doubt that Walker was attempting to conquer Central America when he arrived to Nicaragua in 1855. Even the American goverment of the time recognized Walker´s true intentions and tried to take distance from him.  After the war was won by Costa Rica and her Central American allies a US warship arrived to Nicaragua and Walker surrendered to her commander in exchange to safe pass for him and his men to US soil.


 * What is not true is the perception that Walker was a US Goverment´s agent in charge to take possesion of Central America by whatever means available; Walker´s adventure in Central America was his own plot and doing. A proof of this was that early, in the 1850ies, he attempted to create a country out of the Sonora Desert in Mexico. After he was defeated by that country´s army he was arrested by US forces for violating the law.