Many of the English settlers disagreed with this resolution. They sought the help of American filibuster William Walker in order to put pressure on the British government to keep the islands. Walker who in 1857 had been deposed from the presidency of Nicaragua, by a Central American army, decided to assist them. Walker arrived in Honduras, landed in Trujillo with one hundred men, but his efforts to help the English settlers, were in vain. Walker was captured by Captain Nowell Salmon who turned him over to Honduran authorities. He was prosecuted and sentenced to die before a firing squad. His execution took place at 8 am, on September 12, 1860.