| Rebels on the Niagara: The Fenian Invasion of Canada, 1866 Contributor(s): Cline, Lawrence E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438467516 ISBN-13: 9781438467511 Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New Yo OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - Canada - History | Canada - Pre-confederation (to 1867) - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) |
| Dewey: 971.048 |
| LCCN: 2016059172 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.06 lbs) 264 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Geographic Orientation - New York - Ethnic Orientation - Irish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In what is now largely considered a footnote in history, Americans invaded Canada along the Niagara Frontier in 1866. The group behind the invasion--the Fenian Brotherhood--was formed in 1858 by Irish nationalists in New York City in order to fight for Irish independence from Britain. At the end of the American Civil War, Fenian leaders attempted to use Irish Americans, many of them combat veterans, to seize Canada and make it the "New Ireland" as a means to force the British from "old" Ireland. New York State was both the epicenter of Fenian leadership and a key support base and staging area for the military operations. Although relatively short-lived and with some of its military operations being somewhere between farce and tragedy, the Fenian Brotherhood had a very important impact on nineteenth-century New York and America, but remains largely forgotten. In Rebels on the Niagara Lawrence E. Cline examines not only the Fenian operations and their impact on Canada, but also the role the United States and New York played in both the initial support for the Fenian movement and its subsequent collapse in America. |
