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Part One: The Dumbest Colonizer in History

Behind the Bastards

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The Colonizers Catch 22

William walker and two business partners travelled to gaimos, mexico with the goal of scouting out possible locations for a border settlement. They received passes from the mexican consulate to visit the country, but they were most definitely not allowed to go there in order to plot how they could illegally build towns full of white settlers. Another wave of french freebooters came next, led by a french count a gaston de rousseau boubon. He received permission from themexican government to do the same, basically to start a settlement. But again, these would be colonists, and the local government wound up at logger heads. The count and his men eventually decided

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