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The Fenian raids were a series of incursions carried out by the Fenian Brotherhood, an Irish republican organization based in the United States, on military fortifications, customs posts and other targets in Canada (then part of British North America) in 1866, and again from 1870 to 1871.
The leader of the Fenian Brotherhood, the scholarly John O'Mahony (who himself served as an officer in the Union Army), thought the Irish veterans should be deployed to Ireland post-haste for a rebellion there, funded by the Irish in America. However, Roberts quickly became the leader of a faction of Fenians with an alternative plan.
In December 1867, O'Neill became president of the Roberts faction of the Fenian Brotherhood, which in the following year held a great convention in Philadelphia attended by over 400 properly accredited delegates, while 6,000 Fenian soldiers, armed and in uniform, paraded the streets. At this convention, a second invasion of Canada was conceived.
Fenian raids: April 1866 Fenian Brotherhood. Irish Republican Brotherhood; United States(Alleged) British Empire. Canada (1867–71) Province of Canada (1866) Stalemate; Fenian raids cease Warren Wagon Train raid: 18 May 1871 Kiowa: United States Native American victory Jesse James Northfield Raid: 6 September 1876 Law enforcement James-Younger ...
Brome-Missisquoi veteran soldiers from the Missisquoi 60th Battalion proudly wore their new commemorative military medals engraved with the Fenian Raids of 1866–1870 inscription. [5] In fact, after thirty years since the end of the Battle Of Eccles hill, the Canadian authorities decided to decorate all veterans who participated in pushing ...
Pages in category "Fenian Raids" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Fenian raids; D.
A company of the Welland Field Battery landed without difficulty, capturing around 59 of the Fenian soldiers. But when John O'Neill returned with most of his large army from the nearby Battle of Ridgeway, the small number of Canadian volunteers that were sent to capture a small numbers of Fenian soldiers were not prepared. A firefight followed ...
John Francis O'Mahony (1815 – 7 February 1877) was an Irish scholar and the founding member of the Fenian Brotherhood in the United States, sister organisation to the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Despite coming from a reasonably wealthy family and being well educated, the primary pursuit of O'Mahoney's life was that of Irish Independence ...