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Source citation
Manual J. Jimenez and Faustino Viquez. Documentos Relativos a la Guerra Nacional de 1856 y 1857 con sus antecedents (Tipografia Nacional: San Jose, Costa Rica, 1914), 52-53.
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Letter
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Exact
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Carrie Roush
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This text has been translated from the Spanish. Every effort has been made to preserve the content of the original while making it accessible to an English-speaking audience.
From the Supervisor and Military Governor of the Department
Military governor of the Department of Guanacaste
Rivas, July 1st, 1855.
On the 27th of the previous month at 7 o’clock p.m., the adventurer Walker, in charge of a party of filibusterers and ungrateful sons of this Republic—more than 200 men—have completed their invasion, after some time of stalling along the southern coast of this state; and on the 29th, just after midnight, they came to me via the outskirts of this plaza, erupting in live fire that was maintained successfully on the part of the forces of my Government until a little after 5 p.m. the same day. I should also tell you that the enemy, destroyed and terrified, cowardly fled in several directions; and one of them, according to good reports, had been from your jurisdiction, I am urgent to include you. In consideration of the most religious observance of the highest duties of which has so honorably been bestowed upon you, and in connection with the harmony and good intelligence that governors both your Government and mine, that you pursue the criminals that have dared defame this Republic.
I should not fail to mention to you that the group which I mention is composed of 40 men, all Nicaraguans that act on the orders of the long-standing traitors Mariano Méndez and Félix Ramírez (a) Madregil.
The governor should assume that the present request of which I have the honor of making is only done so that he may determine, ad interin, the precautionary measures that I have suggested to him, and so that he may act as he wishes to help guide the destiny of a happy Costa Rica.
I remain, of my own free will, an attentive servant of the Governor.
EDUARDO CASTILLO
Affirmed. Prefecture and Military Ministry of the State. Rivas, July 3, 1855. EDUARDO CASTILLO.
Affirmed. Nicaraguan Republic. External Relations Ministry, Granada, August 17, 1855. MAYORGA.