Narciso Lopez set out from New Orleans and burned the governor's mansion in Cardenas in a failed attempt to do this with a group of "filibusters."
This action was one of the principle party aims of the "Young Americans," and Pierre Soule's appointment by Franklin Pierce was made to satisfy those that supported doing this. Mississippi Governor John Quitman agreed to assist one man in performing this action, a man who earlier attempted to get Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee to do it. Narciso Lopez set out from New Orleans and burned the governor's mansion in Cardenas in a failed attempt to do this with a group of "filibusters." In 1851, William Critenden attempted it, and in the most famous incident involving an effort at this, members of the People's Revolutionary Movement were excluded from taking part in this act by the CIA. For 10 points, identify this action that was most notably attempted by the Bay of Pigs operation.
This action was one of the principle party aims of the "Young Americans," and Pierre Soule's appointment by Franklin Pierce was made to satisfy those that supported doing this.
American {invasion of Cuba} or American {annexation of Cuba} or equivalents