Scott Martelle, a veteran journalist and editorial writer for the Los Angeles Times, is the author of six nonfiction books. He lives in Irvine, California.
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In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot-and illegal-forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over. These efforts became known as filibustering, and ... SEE MORE