government and inspired by a previous generation of successful American revolutionaries, the group that carried out a series of five attacks on Canada-the Fenian Brotherhood-established a state in exile, planned prison breaks, weathered infighting, stockpiled weapons, and assassinated enemies. Thousands of Civil War veterans who had fled to the United States rather than perish in the wake of the Great Hunger still considered themselves Irishmen first, Americans second. By the time that these invasions-known collectively as the Fenian raids-began in 1866, Ireland had been Britains unwilling colony for seven hundred years. Instead, they fought side by side to undertake one of the most fantastical missions in military history: to seize the British province of Canada and to hold it hostage until the independence of Ireland was secured. But these former foes had no intention of reigniting the Civil War. Lee relinquished his sword, a band of Union and Confederate veterans dusted off their guns. Описание: The outlandish, untold story of the Irish American revolutionaries who tried to free Ireland by invading Canada Just over a year after Robert E.
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