![]() ![]() None succeeded in holding Canadian territory for more than 48 hours their principal accomplishment was to encourage Canadian confederation as an enhancement to national security. Under several different leaders, Fenians raided Canada from New Brunswick to Manitoba in several incidents between 18. What could possibly go wrong? Everything, as it turned out. What could they do for their native land? Union general Thomas Sweeny of the Fenian Brotherhood had an idea: Attack poorly defended Canada, then still a colony of the crown, and trade the captured territory back to Britain in exchange for Irish independence. America, however, teemed with refugees from that disaster, resentful of England and now armed and battle-hardened. Civil War veterans plot to win Irish independence by kidnapping Canada.īy the end of the American Civil War, the movement for national liberation was moribund in Ireland, where the populace was debilitated, demoralized, and disarmed in the wake of the Great Hunger 15 years earlier. ![]()
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