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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...
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    Missisquoi County), with the raids continuing after these colonies had been confederated. The ultimate goal of the Fenian raids was to hold Canada hostage...
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    The Fenian Brotherhood (Irish: Bráithreachas na bhFíníní) was an Irish republican organisation founded in the United States in 1858 by John O'Mahony and...
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    The Fenian Rising of 1867 (Irish: Éirí Amach na bhFíníní, 1867, IPA: [ˈeːɾʲiː əˈmˠax n̪ˠə ˈvʲiːnʲiːnʲiː]) was a rebellion against British rule in Ireland...
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    Battle of Ridgeway (category Fenian Raids)
    irregular army of Irish-American invaders, the Fenians. It was the largest engagement of the Fenian Raids, the first modern industrial-era battle to be...
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    area. The Fenians, Irish-American veterans of the American Civil War demanding independence from Britain for Ireland, mounted several raids on Upper Canada...
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    formerly constituted the Province of Upper Canada. There was a danger of Fenian raids along the Canada–United States border south and east of Montreal. The...
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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...
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  • American Civil War and member of the Fenian Brotherhood. O'Neill is best known for his activities leading the Fenian raids on Canada in 1866 and 1871. O'Neill...
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    Last Invasion of Canada: The Fenian Raids, 1866-1870. Dundurn. pp. 70–98. ISBN 9781550020854. Charles Perry Stacey, "Fenianism and the Rise of National Feeling...
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    Battle of Eccles Hill (category Fenian Raids)
    Eccles Hill (/ˈɛkəlz/) was part of a raid into Canadian territory from the United States led by John O'Neill of the Fenian Brotherhood, intended to pressure...
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    Infantry alongside the Dundas companies during the Fenian Raids in 1866. In 1899, veterans of the Fenian Raids were awarded the Canada General Service Medal...
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  • to Tancook over the ice was 1932. To ward off the threat of possible Fenian raids (1866–71), a volunteer regiment was raised in Blandford. The troop of...
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  • in the 19th and early 20th century Fenian raids: a series of skirmishes between the Fenians and British Canada Fenian Rising: an Irish rebellion against...
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    John O'Mahony (category People of the Fenian raids)
    Civil War, and was involved organisationally in the Fenian Rising of 1867 in Ireland and the Fenian Raids on Canada. O'Mahony was born in 1815 in Kilbeheny...
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  • the Niagara River. Militia units skirmished with the Fenians sporadically until 1871. The raids ended after unsuccessful attacks during the Battle of...
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    The Royal 22nd Regiment (R22R; French: Royal 22e Régiment) is an infantry regiment of the Canadian Army. Known colloquially in English as the Van Doos...
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  • Deventer North-West Europe, 1944–45 Afghanistan ‡ Battle of Ridgeway, Fenian Raids, 1866 Battle of Cut Knife, North-West Rebellion, 1885 First World War...
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  • Quebec (1775), an American invasion during the American Revolutionary War Fenian raids (1866–1871), incursions carried out by an Irish republican organization...
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    ohiocivilwarcentral.com. "St. Alban's Raid", Virtual Vermont Battle of Ridgeway Archived 2005-08-30 at the Wayback Machine "FENIAN RAIDS". IrishRepublicanHistory....
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  • during the 1866 Fenian Raids Lieutenant Colonel George Taylor Denison III, FRSC: commanded the regiment during against the Fenian Raids and the North-West...
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    William R. Roberts (category People of the Fenian raids)
    William Randall Roberts (February 6, 1830 – August 9, 1897) was a Fenian Brotherhood member, United States Representative from New York (1871–1875), and...
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  • 1862, the regiment would see a history of service stretching from the Fenian Raids of the 1860s-70s right into the middle of the 20th Century. In 1965,...
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    citizens have served in the Black Watch. In addition to service during the Fenian raids, they have fought in the First and Second World Wars; bolstered NATO...
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    initially the Fenian Brotherhood, but from the 1870s it was Clan na Gael. The members of both wings of the movement are often referred to as "Fenians". The IRB...
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    party of 200 Fenians was defeated near Pigeon Hill. The threat of raids in 1870 led the government to mobilize 13,000 volunteers. Fenian raiding parties were...
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    Fenian Ram is a submarine designed by John Philip Holland for use by the Fenian Brotherhood, the American counterpart to the Irish Republican Brotherhood...
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  • the American Civil War Sharps rifle Volcanic rifle "Guns of the First Fenian Raid: The Irish Invasion of Canada". Esposito, Gabriele, The Paraguayan War...
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    He commanded the regiment on the border multiple times throughout the Fenian Raids, on March 8, 1866, they were called out for active service and were stationed...
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    There he joined the Volunteer Cavalry to defend the Province against the Fenian raids; however, some of his actions led to a military review on suspicions...
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