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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.
Dunnville heroes: the W.T. Robb and the Dunnville Naval Brigade in the 1866 Fenian invasion. Dunnville, ON: Dunnville District Heritage Association. ISBN 978-0-9688173-1-5. OCLC 52197172. Vronsky, Peter Ridgeway: The American Fenian Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada., Toronto: Penguin Canada-Allen Lane, 2011.
Troublous Times in Canada: A History of the Fenian Raids of 1866 and 1870. Toronto: W.S. Johnston & co'y. OCLC 3077877. Another version is listed under ISBN 978-0-948130-40-3 and OCLC 60084992. A microform version is listed under ISBN 978-0-665-72812-9 and OCLC 53698024. Books on the Battle of Ridgeway since 1911 Docker, John Thornley (2003 ...
A map of the 1866 Fenian raid into Ontario. The next conflict involving the patrol was the Fenian Raids into Canada and New Brunswick by Irish Republicans based in the United States. The Fenian Brotherhood , many of whose members were battle hardened Union and Confederate veterans of the American Civil War, organized a paramilitary army spread ...
The volunteer companies were called out on active service during the Fenian Raids in 1866, serving along the St. Lawrence River frontier at Fort Wellington in Prescott. The battalion was commanded by Col. Hamilton Jessup , who also commanded Fort Wellington in 1866.
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In 1866, he commanded the ill-fated Fenian invasion of Canada, after which he was arrested for breaking neutrality laws between the United States and Britain, but was soon released. He was reinstated with his former rank of major later that year, and retired from the regular army in May 1870 as a brigadier general.
To protect Nova Scotia from a possible Fenian Raid, the Battalion was put on high alert from 27 March 1866 until 14 April 1866. [14] They were called out for duty and drilled on Grand Parade. All ball practice was prohibited and no member of the battalion was allowed beyond the city limits without special leave.