Sentences with 'filibuster'
Example sentences and phrases with the word filibuster and other words derived from it.
• « In the summer of 1819, James Long, a planter from Natchez, Mississippi, became a filibuster, or unauthorised private military adventurer, when he led 300 men on an expedition across the Sabine River to seize control of Texas. »
• « As the early filibuster raids on Texas demonstrated, American expansionists had desired this area of the Spanish empire in America for many years. »
• « After his election, President Buchanan, despite his earlier expansionist efforts, denounced the filibuster as the actions of pirates. Filibustering caused an even greater gulf between North and South. »