Granada is surrounded by four thousand Costa…

December 1856 CE

Granada is surrounded by four thousand Costa Rican, Honduran, Salvadoran, and Guatemalan troops on December 14, 1856, when Charles Frederick Henningsen, one of Walker's generals, orders his men to set the city ablaze before escaping and fighting their way to Lake Nicaragua.

When retreating from Granada, the oldest Spanish colonial city in Nicaragua, Henningsen leaves a detachment with orders to level it in order to instill, as he put it, "a salutary dread of American justice".

It will take them over two weeks to smash, burn and flatten the city; all that will remain are inscriptions on the ruins that read "Aqui Fue Granada" ("Here was Granada")

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Cornelius Vanderbilt View → William Walker (filibuster) View →

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United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Guatemala, Republic of View → Costa Rica, Republic of View → Honduras, Republic of View → Nicaragua, Republic of View → El Salvador, Republic of View →

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Walker's Invasion of Nicaragua View →

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