Walker's Expedition to Nicaragua Author:William Vincent Wells Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. ORIGIN OP THE NICARAGUAN EXPEDITION—NEGOTIATIONS WITH CASTELLON—DIFFICULTIES IN SAN FRANCISCO GRAND COUP DE MAIN—SAILING OF THE BRIG VESTA—C... more »AUSE OF THE CASTELLON AND CHAMORRO REVOLUTION—PROGRESS OF WALKER AND HIS COMPANIONS—ARRIVAL AT REALEJO—DEPARTURE FOR EL JIGANTE—BATTLE OF RIVAS—POLITICAL AFFAIRS OCCUPATION OF SAN JUAJT DEL SUR—BATTLE OF VIRGIN BAY—THE CHOLERA—DEATH OF CASTELLON—TAKING OF GRANADA—THE NEW GOVERNMENT—THE SAN CARLOS AND VIRGIN BAY MASSACRES—COL. WHEELER'S RECOGNITION EXECUTION OF MAYORGA—THE TREATY. Early in 1854 a company consisting of Messrs. James D. Whelpley, William V. Wells, Byron Cole, Robert Somerville, and their associates, was formed in San Francisco, California, for the purpose of establishing commercial intercourse between Eastern Honduras and the United States, and developing the gold placers of Olancho, reliable data regarding which had been received by them from Honduras, by means of a number of documents, letters and specimens brought from those regions in 1850, and which going through various hands had at last passed into the possession of the above-named company. On the 15th of August of that year their agent left San Francisco for Central America with a view of obtaining informationin relation to the gold region of the Guayape river, discharging into the Caribbean Sea, between Trax- illo and Cape Gracias a' Dios. From San Juan del Sur he proceeded to Leon, where the Democratic head-quarters were then established, under Don Francisco Castellon, at that time Provisional Director of Nicaragua, and by whom President Don Fruto Chamorro had been deposed, some four months previous. The agent of the Association, Mr. William V. Wells, was the bearer of numerous letters of introduction to Castellon, through which he an...« less