What I learned from rereading Tycoon's War: How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer by Stephen Dando-Collins.
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This is a wild story.
Cornelius Vanderbilt was only interested in two things, making money and winning.
Often, he temporarily subjugated the need for the former to achieve the latter.
Vanderbilt had an unquenchable thirst for conquest.
There was nothing he would not do to conquer.
Cornelius Vanderbilt and his enemy, William Walker, were alike in several respects.
Both were opportunists.
Both were prepared to suffer through short term adversity to achieve long term victory.
Both Vanderbilt and Walker were loyal to those who were loyal to them, attracting lifelong allegiance from their closest associates.
But that's where their similarities ended.