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  2. Fenian Rising - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The Fenian Rising of 1867 (Irish: Éirí Amach na bhFíníní, 1867, IPA: [ˈeːɾʲiː əˈmˠax n̪ˠə ˈvʲiːnʲiːnʲiː]) was a rebellion against British rule in Ireland, organised by the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). After the suppression of the Irish People newspaper in September 1865, disaffection among Irish radical ...

  3. Fenian raids - Wikipedia

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    Fenian raids. ^ Raids that were carried out in 1866 took place in the Province of Canada and the colony of New Brunswick; prior to Confederation in 1867. 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 ...

  4. Battle of Fort Erie (1866) - Wikipedia

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    3-4 dead, 16 wounded, 54 captured. During the 1866 Fenian raid of the Province of Canada, the Battle of Fort Erie was a surrounding and forcing of the Fenian armies surrender following a skirmish near Fort Erie and the farther-away Battle of Ridgeway on June 2. The Fenian force, withdrawing from Ridgeway, met a small force of Canadian militia ...

  5. Fenian Brotherhood - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The Fenian Brotherhood (Irish: Bráithreachas na bhFíníní) was an Irish republican organisation founded in the United States in 1858 by John O'Mahony and Michael Doheny. [1][2] It was a precursor to Clan na Gael, a sister organisation to the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). Members were commonly known as "Fenians".

  6. Irish Republican Brotherhood - Wikipedia

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    The Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB; Irish: Bráithreachas Phoblacht na hÉireann) was a secret oath-bound fraternal organisation dedicated to the establishment of an "independent democratic republic" in Ireland between 1858 and 1924. [1] Its counterpart in the United States of America was initially the Fenian Brotherhood, but from the 1870s ...

  7. Military history of Canada - Wikipedia

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    Fenian raiding parties were defeated at the battles of Eccles Hill and Trout River in May 1870. In October 1871, 40 Fenians occupied a customs house near the Manitoba-Minnesota border, hoping to elicit support from Louis Riel and the Métis, but Riel raised volunteers to repel them. The US Army later intervened and arrested the Fenians, with ...

  8. Fenian dynamite campaign - Wikipedia

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    The Fenian dynamite campaign (also known as the Fenian bombing campaign) was a campaign of political violence orchestrated by Irish republican paramilitary groups in Great Britain from 1881 to 1885. It involved attacks using explosives such as dynamite on British government and civilian targets and was carried out by the Irish Republican ...

  9. List of monuments and memorials to the Fenian Rebellion

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    Fenian Men Memorial Tallaght: Co. Dublin: Fenians [8] O'Neill-Crowley Memorial Mitchelstown: Co. Cork: Peter O'Neill Crowley [9] Kilmallock Memorial Kilmallock: Co. Limerick: Fenians [10] Lattin Memorial Lattin: Co. Tipperary: Fenians [11] Ballycohey Memorial Shronell: Co. Tipperary: Fenians [12] Maid of Erin Tipperary: Co. Tipperary: Fenians ...