Rebels on the Niagara - The Fenian Invasion of Canada, 1866

Informationen zum Autor Lawrence E. Cline is Lecturer in Intelligence Analysis at Buffalo State College, State University of New York. He is the author of The Lord's Resistance Army . Klappentext Offers a detailed account of the political and military history of the Irish American Fenian Brotherhood in the nineteenth century. 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.

About the author

Lawrence E. Cline is Lecturer in Intelligence Analysis at Buffalo State College, State University of New York. He is the author of The Lord's Resistance Army.

Product details

• Authors: Lawrence E Cline, Lawrence E. Cline, Cline Lawrence E.
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781438467511
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-6751-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Excelsior Editions
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Canada, European History, military history, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, HISTORY / Military / United States, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, HISTORY / Canada / Pre-Confederation (to 1867), HISTORY / Military / Canada, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Ireland, British & Irish history, Local History, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, US Northeast: Mid-Atlantic States