1854-59

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They supported Narciso Lopez and John A. Quitman in their filibustering expeditions against Cuba, and they heralded William Walker, who sought to make Nicaragua an American slave State in 1854-59, as a statesman and "man of destiny."

William Edward Dodd - Expansion and Conflict

He wrote a History of Ancient Rome , and, along with R. Scott, pub. a Greek-English Lexicon . Divine, s. of a captain in the navy, was b. at North Stoneham, Hants, and ed. at King's Coll. School, London, and Oxf. He took orders 1853, was Vice-Principal of Cuddesdon Theological Coll. 1854-59, Prebendary of Salisbury 1864, and Canon of St. Paul's 1870.

John W. (John William) Cousin - A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature