William Walker's Invasion of San Francisco

William walker hired a ship called the arrow to carry he and his men to sonora. The boat was seized while full of guns in san francisco. Walker responded by suing the government to release his boat, arguing that it had no authority to take possession of a ship without evidence of a criminal act. While all this attention was focused on the arrow, william walker went and chartered another ship and filled it with guns and ammunition. A little bit after midnight on october sixteenth, 18 54, the local police caught some of walker's men moving supplies into the boat. They seized a bunch of amo, prompting walker to panic and rosced them