Lapaz, a Small Town Easily

Walker named his small army, slightly larger than a platoon, the first independent battalion. He declared himself colonel, because it was the 18 hundreds and everybody was a colonel. And then, shocking, he succeeded in using his small force to conquer the town of lapaz, population six thousand. There was no one to defend the town. Walker and a bunch of his men just stumbled, probably drunk, into the governor's office waving guns and terrorized everyone there into giving them control. As soon as the governor surrendered, william walker ordered the mexican flag taken down and replaced with a new flag he had designed himself,. flag of the republic of son ora.