Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum AmericaRobert May offers an imaginative new approach to antebellum America's notorious "filibusters"--the adventurers who organized or participated in private military attacks on nations with which the United States was formally at peace. Condemned abroad as pir |
Contents
Senator Henry Clay around | 3 |
Entrance of Gen Winfield Scott | 15 |
CHAPTER | 19 |
CHAPTER THREE | 59 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 81 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 117 |
Gen John Ellis Wool | 146 |
CHAPTER | 169 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 183 |
Engagement between the American | 194 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 215 |
John M Clayton | 218 |
CHAPTER NINE | 249 |
Harpers Weekly announces the death | 268 |
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