No mentions of William Walker....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_(filibuster)
A proto-Confederate raised a mercenary army to conquer Central America to create slave-hold colonial empire. Bonkers.
The latest Hardcore History series about the War in the Pacific (Supernova In The East) had an interesting tidbit buried it the middle: In addition to the parts of the war we were involved in, Japan was fighting a brutal war of occupation in China. China, meanwhile, was split between the Nationalists under Chaing Kai-Shek, and Mao Tse-Tung. Japan was vehemently anti-Communist, and part of their justification for occupying China was to keep it from going Communist. Late in the war, on the ropes after losses to the US and UK, the IJA went all-in on a major offensive, which would consume a massive quantity of irreplaceable resources. They didn't launch this counter offensive against the US, or the UK in India, or even the Communists - they attacked the Nationalists. Had the IJA attacked the Communists instead, maybe the Nationalists could have kept control of China. What would the would look like with a free China today?