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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word Fenian (/ˈfiːniən/) served as an umbrella term for the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) and their affiliate in the United States, the Fenian Brotherhood...
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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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Canada East (section 1866 Fenian raids)
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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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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Old Fort Erie (section Fenian Raids (1866))
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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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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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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Colonial militia in Canada (section Fenian Raids)
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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Presidency of Andrew Johnson (section Fenian raids)
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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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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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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Blandford, Nova Scotia (section Fenian Raids)
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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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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Queen's Own Rifles of Canada (section The Fenian Raids)
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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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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Dundas County Militia (section Fenian Raids)
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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Great Lakes Patrol (section Fenian Raids)
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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Victoria Rifles of Canada (section The Fenian Raids)
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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Royal 22nd Regiment (section Fenian raids)
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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Battalion Volunteer Militia (Infantry) Canada. He had served during the Fenian raids and by 1873 reached the rank of major in the militia. Crozier was commissioned...
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Middlesex Militia (Upper Canada) (section Fenian Raids)
county militia. Both regiments would serve on active duty during the Fenian Raids and many veterans would receive the Canada General Service Medal. Through...
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Fenian Army to attack British bases in Canada. The resulting Fenian Raids strained US–British relations. The level of American support for the Fenian...
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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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Irish Republican Brotherhood (section Fenian Rising)
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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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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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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