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2. Fenian raids - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Battle of Eccles Hill - Wikipedia

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   The Fenian Chief: a Biography of James Stephens. Coral Gables, 1969. Senior, Hereward (1991). The Last Invasion of Canada: The Fenian Raids, 1866–1870. Dundurn. ISBN 978-1-77070-064-2. Steward, Patrick, and Bryan P. McGovern. The Fenians: Irish Rebellion in the North Atlantic World, 1858-1876. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2013.

4. Battle of Ridgeway - Wikipedia

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   The Battle of Ridgeway (sometimes the Battle of Lime Ridge or Limestone Ridge [nb 1]) was fought in the vicinity of the town of Fort Erie across the Niagara River from Buffalo, New York, near the village of Ridgeway, Canada West, currently Ontario, Canada, on June 2, 1866, between Canadian troops and an irregular army of Irish-American invaders, the Fenians.

5. Battle of Fort Erie (1866) - Wikipedia

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   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 at Fort Erie, then known as the ...

6. Colonial militia in Canada - Wikipedia

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   Kingston, Ontario: Province of Canada: 1846 Fort Frederick: Placentia, Newfoundland: Newfoundland: 1721 Fort George: Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario Upper Canada: 1796 Fort Henry: Kingston, Ontario: Upper Canada: 1812 Fort Howe: Saint John, New Brunswick: Colony of Nova Scotia 1777 Fort Lawrence: Fort Lawrence, Nova Scotia: Colony of Nova Scotia ...

7. Battle of Trout River - Wikipedia

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   The Fenians, an extremist group of Irish Republicans, were under the command of General John O'Neill and General Owen Starr, and the Canadians were under Col. George Bagot of the British 69th Regiment of Foot. [2] [3] [4] The day before, the Fenians had crossed the border to build several positions, which were apparently well chosen and built ...

8. Grenville Regiment (Lisgar Rifles) - Wikipedia

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   No. 2 Company (first raised on 11 February 1857 as the 2nd Prescott Rifle Company) No. 3 Company (first raised on 30 January 1863 as the Burritt's Rapids Infantry Company) No. 4 Company (first raised on 8 June 1866 as the Millar's Corners Infantry Company) - included men from the companies of the Dundas County Militia

9. Fenian - Wikipedia

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   In Canada, Fenian is used to designate a group of Irish radicals, a.k.a. the American branch of the Fenian Brotherhood in the 1860s. They made several attempts to invade some parts of the British colonies of New Brunswick (i.e., Campobello Island ) and Canada (present-day Southern Ontario and Missisquoi County [ 11 ] ), with the raids ...