Sentences with 'filibusters'
Example sentences and phrases with the word filibusters and other words derived from it.
• « Long was but one of many 19th century American filibusters seeking to seize territory in the Caribbean and Central America. »
• « Repeating the tactics of earlier filibusters, a Texan force set out in 1841 with the intention of taking Santa Fe. Its members encountered an army of New Mexicans and were taken prisoner and sent to Mexico City. »
• « In the 1850s, the expansionist impulse among southern whites intensified. Among southern imperialists, one way to push for the creation of an American empire of slavery was through the actions of filibusters, men who conducted unofficial military operations aimed at seizing land in foreign countries or fomenting revolution there. »